Patent Document ID: 6141002
Application ID: 08747204

Base Claim:
1. A television system, comprising: a broadcast center configured to transmit an application program and a glyph, wherein said application program includes a character for display on a television, wherein said glyph describes a graphic representation of said character; and a set top box comprising: a receiver configured to receive said application program and said glyph from said broadcast center; an operating environment configured to accept one or more glyph sets; a processor configured to operably receive said application program from said receiver and execute said application program; a hash table configured to store information regarding said one or more glyph sets; and a rendering engine for rendering said character for display on the television, wherein said rendering engine is operable to determine an index using the character, use the index to retrieve information from the hash table, and use the information from the hash table to render said character for display on the television.

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Claim 2:
2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein said glyph is included in a resource file received with said application program from said broadcast center.