Patent ID: 7555716

Claim:
An apparatus for customizing terminology in a processing environment, the apparatus comprising: an access table storing a plurality of native terms in a default language with at least one of the native terms containing a reserved word in the form of a command in the default language representing a program instruction that is to be executed when the command is processed by a processor; a terms data structure storing a plurality of user-defined terms in at least one language other than the default language, associating each of the user-defined terms to a corresponding native term in the default language; and a processing device operative to automatically execute the command responsive to receiving programming instructions from a memory device that include an unidentified program term in the at least one language other than the default language by: searching the access table to determine whether the unidentified program term matches the respective native term stored therein, when the unidentified program term does not match the respective native term stored in the access table, searching the terms data structure to match the unidentified program term to a stored user-defined term; based on the matching, retrieving the respective native term corresponding to the user-defined term; and when the unidentified term is associated with the respective native term, either through the access table search or the retrieval, executing the command associated with the respective native term.