Patent ID: 9430037
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method, in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory, for performing a locale name modification operation, the method comprising: receiving, in the data processing system, via a locale name management user interface presented by the data processing system, a new locale name to be used by the data processing system to perform locale customized operations; identifying, by the data processing system, an existing locale name to be replaced by the new locale name; mapping, by the data processing system, the new locale name to existing locale name data structures associated with the existing locale name to be replaced; verifying, by the data processing system, proper operation of a software element using the new locale name and the mapping of the new locale name to the existing locale name data structures; and utilizing, by the data processing system, the new locale name to perform locale name customized operations in response to verifying proper operation of the software element, wherein the new locale name and the existing locale name are designators of a similar locale, and wherein a locale represents a set of rules and parameters of cultural conventions to be used by at least one of operating systems or applications when performing the locale customized operations on the data processing system.