Patent ID: 6493661
Filing Date: 2002-12-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A software system that includes text messages viewable by a user, comprising:a) a software build, responsive to a specified language indicating the spoken language in which text messages are to be provided, and further responsive to a request for text messages on a particular topic, for providing a language-independent identifier corresponding to the requested text message along with the specified language, further responsive to a text message string in the specified language, the text message string corresponding to the language-independent identifier and to the specified language, for providing the text message string in the specified language to the user; and b) a text message system database, responsive to the language-independent identifier corresponding to the requested text message and to the specified language, for providing to the software build the text message string in the specified language; wherein the software build is derived from a source code including text-replacement macros for each text message to be provided, each text-replacement macro having as arguments a text string and an indicator of a corresponding first language, the source code being filtered so as to replace each text-replacement macro with a language-independent identifier of the text message to be provided, thereby providing that the software build includes language-independent identifiers of text messages in place of the text-replacement macros.