Patent ID: 7039625

Claim:
A search engine management system for searching for information about offered products on documents in multiple natural languages, the system comprising: a format translational layer that receives a document concerning an offered product using a local name in a local natural language where information about the product is contained in a document in at least one more of the multiple natural languages, the document having an input format and input data, the format translational layer retaining the data in its local natural language, converting the input format to a single kernel format with a translation of the local product name added to the document in the at least one more natural language, the translational layer further having one or more output adaptors; and a kernel layer using the kernel format to operate on the input data with one or more kernel elements to produce kernel results whereby the kernel results are sent to one or more of the network outputs through the translational layer where the output adaptors convert the kernel results to the output format in one more of the multiple natural languages.