Patent ID: 7046984

Claim:
A method for retrieving vocabulary entries in a mobile phone, the mobile phone comprising a screen, the method comprising: uploading a first text file to the mobile phone, the first text file comprising a plurality of vocabulary entries, each vocabulary entry is stored in a number of languages in the first text file; opening a plurality of second files according to the number of languages in the first text file; storing vocabulary entries of a same language in one of the plurality of second files and storing vocabulary entries of different languages in different second files; giving a same index for every vocabulary entry of a same meaning expressed in different languages, and giving different indexes for different vocabulary entries expressed in a same language; retrieving a vocabulary entry of a same meaning expressed in a different language in one of the plurality of second files according to the index; and displaying the vocabulary entry on the screen; the plurality of vocabulary entries are stored in the first text file according to Unicode, version II; and the plurality of vocabulary entries are stored in the plurality of second files after converting Unicode, version II to Unicode.