Patent ID: 7542895

Claim:
A computing system comprising: at least one database for storing a plurality of language specific elements; a companion computing device comprising: a display device for presenting a bitmap image as a full screen image; a digitizer input system for receiving a user request for a language element; memory storage for storing a language specific element received as the bitmap image, said storing occurring without conversion from character codes to graphic elements; and a control device comprising program logic for transmitting the user request for the language element to the host computing device over a communication link, wherein the requested language element is in a language not supported by the companion computing device, and wherein the user request comprises display attributes for formatting a display of the requested language element on the display device; a host computing device with access to the at least one database in which the plurality of language specific elements are stored in the language not supported by the companion device; wherein the host computing device comprises processing instructions for: receiving the request for the language specific element from the companion computing device; deriving from the request for the language specific element, a specific language; referencing the at least one database comprising the plurality of language specific elements stored in the specific language; retrieving the language specific element from the database that matches the language element; transmitting the language specific element as the bitmap image to the companion computing device; and the communication link for bi-directionally providing a communication channel between the host computing device and the companion computing device.