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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 1998
Filed:
May. 03, 1996
Andrew M Daniels, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Andrew Wilson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Text objects having a primary data portion in which is stored text characters and associated encoding information, and an annotation portion in which is stored attribute information such as style and language identifiers, is described. The encoding information is stored within a run header in the primary data portion and both the run header and attribute header refer to the text characters to thereby define a text run. Also described are operations for manipulating the text objects of the invention and for creating and deleting annotations. The operations for manipulating the text objects of the invention include installing text within a text object, copying text in a text object, replacing text in a text object, writing text in a text object and imaging text in a text object for display.
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