Patent ID: 7308399

Claim:
A computerized method comprising: converting a first text string formatted in a first external format of a plurality of external formats into an internal format; searching a terminology database for an appropriate translation of the first text string to a requested first target language; and in response to said searching resulting in finding no appropriate translation of the first text string from the terminology database, further performing a method comprising: converting the first text string to an export format, exporting the first text string formatted in the export format, in response to said exporting, receiving a translation of the first text string in the first target language, wherein the translation is formatted in the export format, converting the translation of the first text string in the first target language into the internal format, and storing the first text string and the translation of the first text string in the first target language in the terminology database, wherein the first text string and the translation of the first text string are formatted in the internal format, and the first text string and the translation of the first text string are logically linked.