Patent Document ID: 7571092
Application ID: 11193169
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for localizing a software product, the method comprising: an automated localization mechanism implemented in a computer extracting localizable text strings, to be translated into a language for which the product is to be localized, from one or more localizable files of the software product; the localization mechanism searching a localization database for translations of the extracted localizable text strings, wherein the localization database comprises text strings and associated translations of the text strings in the language for which the product is to be localized; the localization mechanism writing translations for the localizable text strings found in the database into localized versions of the localizable files at locations from which the corresponding localizable text strings were extracted such that the localized versions match an original file structure of the localizable files; and the localization mechanism storing the localized versions of the localizable files in file system locations in accordance with a file organization scheme for the product, wherein the localized versions of the localizable files in the file system locations have the original file structure and are ready for a final build into a localized version of the software product such that all translations in the localized versions relative to the localizable files are obtained by the localization mechanism performing said extracting, said searching, said writing and said storing.