Constructing dynamic multilingual pages in a Web portal

A computer program product in a computer-readable medium, comprising functional descriptive material that, when executed by a computer, directs the computer to perform actions that include:

• receiving an original request for a web page from a client;
• determining an identification of the client;
• determining a plurality of language preferences associated with the identification of the client;
• and
• generating a plurality of language-specific requests from the plurality of language preferences.

A data processing system comprising:

• at least one processor;
• data storage associated with the at least one processor;
• and
• a set of instructions in the data storage, wherein the at least one processor executes the set of instructions in the data storage to perform actions of:
• receiving an original request for a web page from a client;
• determining an identification of the client;
• determining a plurality of language preferences associated with the identification of the client;
• and
• generating a plurality of language-specific requests from the plurality of language preferences.

A system comprising:

• a client computer;
• a server computer;
• and
• a network allowing communication between the client computer and the server computer,
• wherein the client computer transmits a request, through the network, to the server computer;
• wherein in response to receiving the request, the server computer generates a plurality of language-specific requests, the language-specific requests corresponding to language preferences associated with the client computer;
• wherein the server computer collects and assembles results of the language-specific requests into a portal page;
• and
• wherein the server computer transmits the portal page to the server computer.