Patent Document ID: 8027438
Application ID: 11320287

Base Claim:
1. A method for translating electronic messages sent from a first party to a second different party, comprising: receiving at a destination location of the second different party an electronic message from the first party in a source language; determining whether the source language of the electronic message that has been received is similar to a preferred destination language; translating the electronic message that has been received into the preferred destination language when the source language is not similar to the preferred destination language, wherein translating includes determining the preferred destination language, wherein determining the preferred destination language includes determining a preferred operating system language of a computing device of the second different party; providing an option to the second different party to translate the electronic message that has been received from the preferred destination language into a different language, the different language being different than the source language and the preferred destination language, and sending at the destination location a reply electronic message in the preferred destination language to the first party; wherein at the destination location of the second different party, the electronic message from the first party received at the destination location is translated and; further comprising: including an indication that the received message has been translated; wherein the indication is one of a label, a symbol, a color of text, and a background of the message.

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Claim 21:
21. The method of claim 1 , wherein translation is performed on a client.