Patent ID: 7185333

Claim:
A method of managing resources of a downloadable toolbar application downloaded from a server system to a client computer and installed on the client computer, the downloadable toolbar application having a toolbar graphical interface that is integrated into a browser application user interface, such that the toolbar graphical interface becomes a part of the browser application user interface, the downloadable toolbar application having a language attribute, the method comprising: (a) downloading a resource management program from the server system; (b) receiving at the server system a message to change the language attribute of the downloadable toolbar interface in response to a change in user preference; (c) receiving into the client computer, from the server system, a preference parameter associated with a group of resources needed to accommodate the request to change the language attribute of the downloadable toolbar application; (d) determining whether the needed group of resources to effect the requested change to the language attribute of the downloadable toolbar application is stored locally on the client computer using the preference parameter; (e) retrieving the needed group of resources from the server system if the needed group of resources is not stored locally on the client computer; and (f) modifying the toolbar graphical interface of the downloadable toolbar application using the needed group of resources to reflect the requested change to the language attribute of the downloadable toolbar application.