AUTOMATIC FONT MANAGEMENT WITHIN AN OPERATING SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT

Patent №

US 5,990,907

Granted

1999-11-23

Filed 1996

Owner

APPLE INC.

Lab

AI components

2

evo · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

08764330

A system and methods automatically provide access and management of installed and noninstalled fonts in a computer system. Installed fonts are resident in computer memory, whereas the noninstalled fonts are preferably described in a compact database including the computer-accessible location of the physical font. Broadly, the invention provides user applications with the capability of automatic selection of both installed and noninstalled fonts without modifications to the application itself.

AI classification

AI hardware0.94
Evolutionary computation0.71
Natural language0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00
Planning0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

APPLE INC.

assignment · 274180967

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