Patent ID: 7219310

Claim:
A method for reducing language-related misunderstanding of instructions by a person following the instructions to perform a process, the method comprising: receiving at least one written instruction comprising words and phrases, wherein the written instruction is to be generated as a plurality of glyph instructions; translating the written instruction into the glyph instructions, the translating including: identifying each of the inputted words and phrases; matching each of the identified words and phrases to a word or phrase previously stored in a reference, wherein each matching stored word and phrase is equivalent to one of a plurality of available glyph images, each of the available glyph images including a type designation corresponding to one of an action glyph, a material glyph or an instrumentation glyph, and each of the stored glyphs including an ordering designation; and syntactically ordering the matching glyph images based on the type designation and the ordering designation; and generating the glyph instructions, the ordered glyph images forming the generated glyph instructions for the person to perform the process by following the glyph instructions, wherein the generated glyph instructions are not specific to any particular written language so that the person can follow the generated glyph instructions to perform the process regardless of which written language is understood by the person following the generated glyph instructions, and wherein: a generated action glyph is not a generated material glyph or a generated instrumentation glyph; the generated material glyph is not the generated instrumentation glyph or the generated action glyph; and the generated instrumentation glyph is not the generated action glyph or the generated material glyph.