Patent Document ID: 6014616
Application ID: 08969617

Base Claim:
1. A process for indicating a multilingual input mode for an operating system, comprising the steps of: determining whether said operating system is in a character input mode; if the operating system is in the character input mode, then: reading a plurality of data representative of a current active keyboard language from a specific language input control program of said operating system; displaying a colored cursor corresponding to a current active keyboard language at a character input position on a display device; determining whether a key input is entered and whether said key input is a language conversion command; and if said key input is said language conversion command, then: returning to the step of reading a plurality of data to read a plurality of changed keyboard language data and to display a different colored cursor corresponding to another keyboard language set in said operating system.

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Claim 3:
3. The process of claim 1, wherein colors of said cursor can be selected in a keyboard language setting program.