Apple Inc.

John Kennedy Calhoun

David Hayward

Ian C Hendry

Eric Werner Anderson

Steve Swen

Aspects for maintaining and providing a calibrated color environment for display devices of a computer system. In an aspect of an exemplary method, the method includes determining relevant state data. The method further includes saving the relevant state data as calibration information for the calibrated color environment. The relevant state data includes information about a display that has an effect on color, such as a framebuffer driver state, a display driver state, and phospher characteristics of the display.

Method and system for maintaining fidelity of color correction information with displays

Aspects for maintaining and providing a calibrated color environment for display devices of a computer system. In an aspect of an exemplary method, the method includes determining relevant state data, including a framebuffer driver state and a display driver state. The method further includes saving the relevant state data as calibration information for the calibrated color environment. The relevant state data includes information about a display that has an effect on color, such as a frame buffer driver state, a display driver state, and phospher characteristics of the display.

Aspects for maintaining and providing a calibrated color environment for display devices of a computer system. In an aspect of an exemplary method, the method includes determining relevant state data, including a framebuffer driver state and a display driver state. The method further includes saving the relevant state data as calibration information for the calibrated color environment. The relevant state data includes information about a display that has an effect on color, such as a framebuffer driver state, a display driver state, and phospher characteristics of the display.

Aspects for utilizing functionality of an application program interface (API) of a computer system through script access to the API are described. A method aspect includes receiving a script of one or more desired events for manipulating a file, the file having a format, identifying whether a compatible format for the file is known by the API and executing the script on the file by the API when a compatible format is known.

Method and system for script access to API functionality

Aspects for ensuring the integrity of a cache file utilized by an application program interface of a computer system are provided. A method aspect includes forming a checksum with a modification date value of each of a plurality of files, storing the checksum in the cache file, and utilizing the checksum to validate data in the cache file.

Method and system for ensuring cache file integrity

A computer performs designated operations on text that can be in any of a variety of different languages, rather than being restricted to a single language for which the computer was designed. A library stores operators and functions that can act upon character strings. Also stored within the library are sets of rules which identify the casing, ordering and matching of characters within different writing systems, or human languages. When a user of the computer designates a particular operation to be performed with respect to a text string, the writing system associated with the text string is identified. This identification can be made with reference to the typefont that is used to display the text string. Once the writing system for a string has been determined, appropriate tables and data structures that define and encode language rules for that writing system are accessed and applied to the operation on the string. For example, when comparing strings of text, the computer will be instructed whether to compare encodings on the basis of one byte at a time or multiple bytes together.

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John Kennedy Calhoun