Patent ID: 6922812
Filing Date: 2005-07-26
Classification: G06F,G09G,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer system, comprising: a display device; a first computer adapted to execute a client program that is a JAVA application program for generating a first request to a second computer to display a text string upon the display device; wherein the second computer is coupled to the display device and is adapted to receive the first request and execute a graphic server program to forward a second request to the first computer if a graphic representation is unavailable on the second computer; wherein the first computer is adapted to execute a font server program for responding to the second request by creating a font rasterizer within a JAVA virtual machine (JVA) running on the first computer, and thereafter forwarding a new graphic representation of the text string to the second computer to make the new graphic representation available to the display; and wherein the second request for the text string forwarded from the second computer to the first computer, comprises an X logical font descriptor.