Patent ID: 7697000

Claim:
A method for glyph construction of a line of text in a single computer system, wherein font data tables are stored in the single computer system, the method comprising: utilizing a glyph server to perform the following operations; receiving a request, by a glyph cache unit, for glyph data for the line of text; managing a plurality of requests for glyph data at a time, and managing a memory to store a maximum amount of glyph data in the glyph cache unit, wherein the glyph cache unit is in communication with the single computer system graphics system for accessing font data tables; receiving glyph codes and determining glyph data descriptions in a line layout core module; receiving the glyph data descriptions and determining if glyph data is in the memory in the glyph cache unit, wherein the glyph cache unit handles multiple requests at a time; permitting support for multiple font file formats by an open font architectural services; and sharing data stored in the memory with the at least one software client to decrease glyph construction time.