Patent Document ID: 9953030
Application ID: 15245289

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of automated translation of screen images, the method comprising: receiving a description of a display screen generated by a software program executed in a first mode to interact with a user in first language, the description in a serialized format that includes screen capture parameters and an offset location in a first dictionary corresponding to a screen element in the display screen, the first dictionary including screen elements utilized by the software program when executing in the first mode to generate the display screen; identifying a target language; accessing a second dictionary of screen elements utilized by a deserialization program in the target language, wherein the screen element is located at the offset location in the second dictionary; combining the description of the display screen with the second dictionary; and recreating the display screen in the target language based on the combining, wherein the description is included as metadata along with the display screen in documentation of the software program written in the first language.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first dictionary is a language bundle in the first language, the second dictionary is a language bundle in the target language, and the offset location is a key into the language bundle in the first language and the language bundle in the target language.