Bitstream granted U.S. patent for its award-winning TrueDoc technology.CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 1996-- Latest patent is one of four patents Bitstream holds for its font technology solutions Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BITS) announced today that it has been granted a patent by the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks for its Bitstream(R) TrueDoc(R) Technology. TrueDoc is a complete font compression and portability solution for hardware and software developers. This new Bitstream TrueDoc patent is one of four U.S. patents Bitstream holds for its font technology. In addition to being awarded the U.S. patent, Bitstream TrueDoc has received other esteemed honors including the Seybold Editors' Technology Trailblazer Award and Electronic Publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. Magazine's Hot Product Award. Launched in 1994, TrueDoc was invented by Bitstream Vice President of Engineering John Collins and Principal Engineer Mark Goldwater. The TrueDoc Patent Number 5,577,177 grants Bitstream the right to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, or selling the invention throughout the United States of America UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The name of this country. The United States, now thirty-one in number, are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, or importing the invention into the United States of America. "Bitstream has an extremely talented engineering staff and we are extremely pleased to be awarded this patent for our TrueDoc technology," said Ray Boelig, president and chairman of the board of Bitstream Inc. "Bitstream TrueDoc has been well-received as an emerging industry standard." Bitstream TrueDoc is now implemented in leading operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , Internet browsers, software applications, component architectures, HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. and Java authoring tool kits, Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. software applications, printers and more. Among TrueDoc's licensees include Oracle, Novell, Samsung, Corel, Macromedia, Spyglass and more. Most recently, Oracle's Network Computer Inc. selected TrueDoc as the font technology solution for its network computer (NC). About TrueDoc Bitstream TrueDoc is a complete font compression and portability solution for hardware and software developers. This technology solves the problems of recording, storing and imaging character shapes in a fast, compact and completely resolution and device independent manner -- while maintaining the highest typographic See typography. quality standards. TrueDoc is provided as a software developers kit for original equipment manufacturers and consists of three main components: the character shape recorder, portable font resource A Portable Font Resource (PFR) is an outline font standard developed by Bitstream that compactly encodes font for use in web pages through their TrueDoc system. TrueDoc was natively supported in Netscape Navigator 4, but was discontinued in Netscape Navigator 6 and Mozilla , and the character shape player. About Bitstream Inc. Bitstream develops and markets software products and technologies to enhance the creation, transport, viewing and printing of electronic documents. Bitstream's products and technologies consist of type products, such as libraries of type designs (fonts) and custom type products; enabling technologies, which deliver typographic capabilities to hardware output devices and software applications; and TrueDoc, a portable type technology providing for the efficient distribution of text, with fidelity, in a highly compressed format. Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. USA, Bitstream is traded on the National Market System under the symbol BITS, and licenses its products directly and through subsidiaries, business agents and distributors in the US, Europe and the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . For more information, contact Bitstream at 617-497-6222 or visit the company's home page on the World Wide Web at http://www.bitstream.com -0- Bitstream and TrueDoc are registered trademarks of Bitstream, Inc. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks and are hereby acknowledged. CONTACT: Colleen Cronin Stefan Wennik Bitstream Inc. Bitstream Inc. 617-520-8329 617-520-8621 ccronin@bitstream.com swennik@bitstream.com |
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