Siebel Systems, Inc.

Nikolai Tsepalov

Mark Curtis Hastings

Daniel Salzer

Atsushi Kaneko

Tim Fallen-Bailey

David Murphy

Jayant Kulkarni

Giona Lorenzo Jorge

Ivan Wong

Karen P Parnell

Ramesh Kumaraswami

Anupama Ramesh

Hans Eric Emanuel Kedefors

Eric Jia He

Henry Yingqi Feng

Systems and methods for software development in which the development of a base product proceeds concurrently with the internationalization and localization of the base product to produce multiple language versions of the product for polylingual simultaneous shipment to customers wherein one or more of the multiple languages can be uploaded by the customer in a single installation process.

Polylingual simultaneous shipping of software

Text strings from computer-based applications are converted from multiple external formats into an internal format. The text strings are stored in a terminology database. Translations for the test strings are also stored in the terminology database and associated with the corresponding text strings. In one aspect, text strings are converted into a export format for translation into one or more target languages. The translations are converted into the appropriate external formats and output to the applications that supplied the text strings. In another aspect, the terminology database is queried for an appropriate translation for each newly converted text string. In still another aspect, metadata for the text strings is created and associated with the text strings in the terminology database, and used as query criteria to determine the appropriate translation. The metadata may be exported in conjunction with the text strings.

Searching for and updating translations in a terminology database

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Foster City, CA, United States of America

Nikolai Tsepalov