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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:
Jan. 13, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Erland Unruh, Malmö, SE;
Assignee:
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
A font database includes a plurality of font files each of which stores bitmaps associated with a range of characters. The plurality of font files contains only a single version of a bitmap for each character. In a first embodiment, a plurality of composite font files contain one of more pointers pointing to selected ones of said plurality of font files. In a second embodiment, a rules set responsive to a print request retrieves a desired font file to print a character in accordance with the established rule set.