US 10,481,928 B2Granted

Providing user interface language options

AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation

InventorsJenny J. He, Adrian P. Kyte, Tobias Leicher, Guan Jun Liu, Joseph R. Winchester, Bei Chun Zhou

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Abstract

User interface (UI) language options are provided. A request event of a visible text string for a UI element is identified. A user value area of a control of the UI element is inspected to obtain a resource bundle name and key for one or more language equivalents of the text string of the UI element. A menu option is added to the request event by retrieving the language equivalent of the text string in one or more languages from a resource bundle of the application using the resource bundle name and key.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A computer system for providing user interface (UI) options carried out by a user interface adapter, the computer system comprising:

a memory;
and
a processor in communication with the memory, wherein the computer system is configured to perform a method, said method comprising:
identifying a request event relating to a text string in a first human language for a UI element of user interaction of an application;
inspecting a user value area of a control of the UI element to obtain a resource bundle name and key for one or more second human language equivalents of the text string of the UI element, wherein the one or more second human language equivalents is a different human language from the first human language and is provided in context as part of the application;
and
adding a menu option to the request event by retrieving at least one of the one or more second human language equivalents from a resource bundle of the application using the resource bundle name and key.

4 more elements

A computer program product for providing user interface (UI) options carried out by a user interface adapter, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising:
identifying a request event relating to a text string in a first human language for a UI element of user interaction of an application;
inspecting a user value area of a control of the UI element to obtain a resource bundle name and key for one or more second human language equivalents of the text string of the UI element, wherein the one or more second human language equivalents is a different human language from the first human language and is provided in context as part of the application;
and
adding a menu option to the request event by retrieving at least one of the one or more second human language equivalents from a resource bundle of the application using the resource bundle name and key.

2 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/378,631Filed 14 Dec 2016
Published: US 2018/0164966 A114 Jun 2018
Granted: 19 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06F 9/454
Execution arrangements for user interfaces: multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation
G06F 8/38
Creation or generation of source code: for implementing user interfaces
G06F 40/47
Data-driven translation: machine-assisted translation, e.g. using translation memory
G06F
Computing and data processing

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US 2018/0164966 A1Pre-grant publication · published 14 Jun 2018
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