Patent ID: 7933765

Claim:
A method for identifying digital content with a client computer, the method enabling operations, comprising: generating an equivalency list with a translations generator in communication with the client computer, wherein the list is based on a secondary-language query term associated with at least one primary-language query term, and wherein each of the at least one primary-language query term is in a pre-selected language and the secondary-language term is in a language that is different from the pre-selected primary language; receiving the secondary-language query term in a search request for a search engine that is in communication with the client computer; selecting the at least one primary-language query term from the equivalency list, based on the received secondary-language query term; identifying digital content that is associated with structured text metadata, if the at least one primary-language query term is included in the structured text metadata; and identifying digital content that corresponds to unstructured free-text metadata, if the at least one primary-language query term is included in the corresponding unstructured free-text metadata and is not a unique identifier of a defined term in a controlled vocabulary.