Siebel Systems, Inc.

Tim Fallen-Bailey

Mark Curtis Hastings

Peter Thorson

Bharat Jindal

Vipul Shroff

Jayant Kulkarni

Nikolai Tsepalov

Ramesh Kumaraswami

Anupama Ramesh

Eric Jia He

Henry Yingqi Feng

Ivan Wong

A method and apparatus for providing a translation locking mechanism comprising a locking system to permit locking of translatable properties of an object within a project. The apparatus further comprises a lock tester to determine whether the locking system prevents edits to a particular property; and an editing tool to prohibit alteration of the properties that are affected by translation.

Method and apparatus to control translatable properties of metadata

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

Tim Fallen-Bailey