Patent Document ID: 8682640
Application ID: 12626529

Base Claim:
1. A method for translating oral statements, the method comprising: receiving, by a hand held wireless device, an oral statement; converting the oral statement into data; analyzing, by a processing unit within the device, the data to identify a particular language of the oral statement; determining whether the particular language is a configured translation language in the processing unit within the device to use to translate the oral statement; in response to determining that the particular language is not the configured translation language in the processing unit within the device, automatically updating the translation language of the device with the particular language from a remote language database to reconfigure the translation language in the processing unit within the device to use to perform translations with the device; in response to determining that the particular language is the configured translation language of the device, validating the translation language of the device; and providing a translation of the oral statement.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of analyzing, by a processing unit connected to the device, the data to identify a particular language of the oral statement comprises: determining a location of the device; searching a language database to identify the particular language based on the oral statement and the location of the device, wherein the language database stores data associated with a plurality of languages and a number of locations that each of the plurality of languages are spoken; and responsive to identifying a new location for the particular language, updating the language database with the new location of the particular language.