Oracle International Corporation

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Gary Adams

Michael Elges

Michael William McGrath

William Bruce Kilgore

Venkata Guddanti

David Allen Schneider

Anki R Nelaturu

Robert Vandette

Mark C Torrance

Robert J Kuhns

Joshua Miers

Philip Stuart Resnik

Mark Vakoc

A system performs thread synchronization across layers of code that implement an application, including native code, system code, and code in a virtual machine ('VM'). The system makes a call by the native code to the system code; and sends a message by the system code to the code in the VM. The system then sends a first response by the code in the VM to the system code; and sends a second response by the system code to the native code, where each one of the native code, the system code, and the code in the VM implements wait and notify functionality for communication with other codes that implement the application.

Thread synchronization for platform neutrality

A multilingual agent of the present invention assists clients and users of clients in locating, accessing, and understanding documents on servers and also assists servers and providers of servers in making documents on the servers available to clients and users of clients, regardless of the languages in which the documents are written. A networked computer system in which the preferred embodiment of the present invention operates includes a client, a server, and a multilingual agent connected to one another via a network. The multilingual agent includes a document analyzer, a language identifier, a language converter, and a link modifier. In the operation of one aspect of the multilingual agent of the present invention, when the client retrieves a document from the server, the multilingual agent determines whether the document is written in a language that is unfamiliar to the user of the client. If so, the multilingual agent &ldquo;gists&rdquo; the document and then provides the client with the &ldquo;gisted&rdquo; document. Lastly, the client displays the gisted document to the user of the client. In order to gist the document, the document analyzer breaks the document into pieces, the language identifier identifies a source language in which each piece of the document is written, the language converter converts words or phrases in each piece of the document into equivalent words or phrases in a target language in the gisted document, and the link modifier modifies hypertext links in each piece of the document.

Multilingual agent for use in computer systems

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Lexington, MA, United States of America

Gary Adams