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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
May. 31, 2012
Rylan Michael Hawkins, Seattle, WA (US);
Eric Scott Albright, Sammamish, WA (US);
Nick Beal, Bothell, WA (US);
Peter Geoffrey Constable, Redmond, WA (US);
Wade H. Curtiss, Kirkland, WA (US);
Erik Fortune, Redmond, WA (US);
Andrew Stuart Glass, Seattle, WA (US);
Samuel Aaron Beard, Snohomish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Redmond, WA (US);
Rylan Michael Hawkins, Seattle, WA (US);
Eric Scott Albright, Sammamish, WA (US);
Nick Beal, Bothell, WA (US);
Peter Geoffrey Constable, Redmond, WA (US);
Wade H. Curtiss, Kirkland, WA (US);
Erik Fortune, Redmond, WA (US);
Andrew Stuart Glass, Seattle, WA (US);
Samuel Aaron Beard, Snohomish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A device may be configured to enable a user to select a language, and may fulfill resource requests from applications by selecting, from among resources respectively associated with a language, a resource associated with the selected language of the user. However, this resource selection process may be inadequate if the user selects multiple languages; if a resource associated with the selected language of the user is unavailable, but resources associated with related languages are available; or if the user and/or the application specifies an ordering for the selection among the languages. Presented herein are techniques for performing the resource selection by, for respective languages selected by the user, calculating a weight representing a suitability of the language for the resource request; generating a selection order of the selected languages according to the weights; and selecting a resource based on the position of the associated language in the selection order.