Patent ID: 8159495

Claim:
In a computing environment including a terminal server and a terminal client, a method of remoting text at sub-pixel precision including remoting a single bitmap image of a string of characters from a terminal server to a terminal client, the method comprising: at the terminal server, prior to sending the single bitmap image to the terminal client, generating text definitions, wherein the text definitions include information defining character boundaries for a string of characters for a word or phrase that is repeated, with colors so as to be able to define character boundaries using sub-pixel precision by defining colors at the boundaries so as to make use of sub-pixel color components of LCD pixels when the string of characters is rendered on an LCD screen; creating the single bitmap image of the string of characters at the terminal server, prior to sending the single bitmap image to the terminal client, wherein the bitmap image includes one or more pixels of the bitmap defining one or more edges of the bitmap, each of the one or more pixels having an ARGB value defining each pixel with a color value and an alpha value defining a transparency percentage; and sending the single bitmap image to the terminal client, the terminal client being remote from the terminal server, including sending color values and alpha values for the one or more pixels of the bitmap, wherein the color values and alpha values are used in background blending at the terminal client by the terminal client using the color values and alpha values in combination with background information at the terminal client.