Method for Generating Multi-Language Menus

• US 20080010594A1
• Filed: 11/14/2005
• Published: 01/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Thomson Licensing (Vantiva SA)
• Inventors: Gandolph, Dirk, Peters, Hartmut, Ostermann, Ralf, Janssen, Uwe, Winter, Marco, Schewzow, Andrej, Herpel, Carsten, Hoerentrup, Jobst
• Granted Patent: US 8,701,004 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/703
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation

Abstract

A method for generating multi-language menus comprises grouping language-dependent menu resource files on a storage medium, and selecting only those menu resource files from a group that are labeled with an indication that matches the preferred menu language of the respective player.

Claims

1. Method for executing a software application relating to an audio visual presentation comprising the steps of

reading from a first storage medium software application data having a language label associated;

comparing the language label associated to the read data with a preferred language identifier;

selecting software application data that have a language label matching the preferred language identifier;

caching the selected software application data in a cache memory;

generating or updating a virtual file system based on files from the first storage medium and the files stored in said cache memory wherein the files from the first storage medium comprise files with audio-visual presentation data;

generating an audio-visual presentation from said audio-visual presentation data; and

executing a software application based on the cached data while generating said audio-visual presentation, wherein the software application modifies the audio-visual presentation.

2. Method according to claim 1, further comprising the initial step of detecting a title selection request, wherein the other steps are performed in response to the title selection request.

3. Method according to claim 1 further comprising the step of processing the cached data, wherein the processing comprises preparing archived Java code for setting up a Java Virtual Machine.

4. Method according to claim 1, wherein said software application is a control menu being overlaid to the audio-visual presentation.

5. Method according to claim 1, wherein a group of alternatively usable data sets is defined in the data structure, the group containing files that are used for the same purpose or application, but for different languages.

6. Apparatus for executing a software application relating to an audio visual presentation, comprising

means for reading from a first storage medium software application data having a language label associated;

means for comparing the language label associated to the read data with a preferred language identifier;

means for selecting software application data that have a language label matching the preferred language identifier;

caching means for caching the selected software application data;

means for generating or updating a virtual file system based on files from the first storage medium and the files stored in said caching means, wherein the files from the first storage medium comprise files with audio-visual presentation data;

means for generating an audio-visual presentation from said audio-visual presentation data; and

means for executing a software application based on the cached data while generating said audio-visual presentation, wherein the software application modifies the audio-visual presentation.

7. Apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising means for detecting a title selection request, wherein the means for reading software application data from a first storage medium operates in response to the detection of a title selection request.

8. Apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising means for processing the cached data, wherein the processing comprises preparing archived Java code for setting up a Java Virtual Machine.

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