Patent ID: 7340389

Claim:
A method for configuring a multi-language mobile device to accommodate data variances among geographic locations, the method comprising: configuring the multi-language mobile device to include a language resource data store on the multi-language mobile device, wherein the language resource data store includes a first group of non-localized language-dependent elements for viewing an application in a first language and a second group of non-localized language-dependent elements for viewing an application in a second language, the second language being different than the first language; configuring the multi-language mobile device to include a geographical resource data store on the multi-language mobile device, wherein the geographical resource data store includes geographically dependent elements for association with the application to update the application for a geographic location; processing a request from an application to retrieve geographically dependent elements; providing requested geographically dependent elements from the geographic resource data store to the application; and displaying the geographically dependent elements on the multi-language mobile device.