Method and system for language translation within an interactive software application
Patent 5243519 Issued on September 7, 1993. Estimated Expiration Date: 
February 18, 2012. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
February 18, 2012. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesConcurrent multi-lingual use in data processing system Method of operating a computer system to provide customed I/O information including language translation Method and system for language translation Method to automatically vary displayed object size with variations in window size Word processor with operator inputted character string substitution Patent #: 5067070 InventorsApplicationNo. 837797 filed on 02/18/1992US Classes:704/8, Multilingual or national language support704/2Translation machineExaminersPrimary: Envall, Roy N. Jr.Assistant: Hazard, Jennifer L. Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG06F 015/38AbstractA method and system for facilitating language translation of text fields within an interactive software application. A control parameter is associated with each text field within an interactive softwave application prior to translation and utilized to automatically extract each text field for translation and to reinsert a translated text field thereafter. In certain interactive software applications which utilize fixed template user-interface structures, such as dialog boxes or menu templates, the architecture will not permit captions or menu pulldown controls to be identified within the template. In such applications, an additional artificial control parameter is included within the template which contains an identifier of the text field for the caption or menu pulldown control. Thereafter, the control parameters may be utilized to automatically extract text fields for translation. An attempted automatic extraction of text fields for translation in an application, which includes dialog boxes or menu templates, will result in an error message in the absence of the required artificial control parameter.Other References
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