SERVER DEVICE, METHOD USED IN SERVER DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20080097746A1
• Filed: 10/24/2007
• Published: 04/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Dogo, Yuki, TAGATA, Naoki
• Granted Patent: US 7,962,325 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/263 Language identification

Abstract

A server device which can provide a client device with information in a plurality of languages includes a supportable language recognizing unit recognizing a plurality of supportable languages using language identification information, a requested language recognizing unit recognizing a requested language desired by the client device using the language identification information, an attribute information acquiring unit acquiring attribute information associated with the language identification information, and a language selecting unit selecting one supportable language from the plurality of supportable languages as a support language in which information is provided to the client device, using the attribute information when the language identification information of the requested language does not match with that of any supportable language.

Claims

1. A server device which can provide a client device with information in a plurality of languages, the device comprising:

a supportable language recognizing unit recognizing a plurality of supportable languages using language identification information;

a requested language recognizing unit recognizing a requested language desired by the client device using the language identification information;

an attribute information acquiring unit acquiring attribute information associated with the language identification information; and

a language selecting unit selecting one supportable language from the plurality of supportable languages as a support language in which information is provided to the client device, using the attribute information when the language identification information of the requested language does not match with that of any supportable language.

2. The server device according to claim 1, wherein the language identification information includes at least a first identifier, the attribute information includes priority information for determining a priority order of the supportable languages of which the first identifiers are the same as each other, and the language selecting unit selects the support language from the plurality of supportable languages of which the first identifiers match with that of the requested language on the basis of the priority order when there is no supportable language of which the language identification information matches with the language identification information of the requested language but there is the supportable languages of which the first identifiers match with that of the requested language.

3. The server device according to claim 2, wherein the first identifier is a language code.

4. The server device according to claim 3, wherein the language identification information includes the language code and a country code, and the priority order is determined depending on the country codes.

5. The server device according to claim 1, wherein the language identification information includes at least a second identifier, the attribute information includes default information for specifying a default language for each second identifier, and the language selecting unit selects the support language from the supportable languages of which the second identifiers match with the second identifier of the requested language on the basis of the default information when there is no supportable language of which the language identification information matches with that of the requested language but there is the supportable languages of which the second identifiers match with the second identifier of the requested language.

6. The server device according to claim 5, wherein the second identifier is a country code.

7. The server device according to claim 2, wherein the language identification information is preliminarily classified into a plurality of groups, the attribute information includes first group information for specifying a group to which the requested language belongs, and the language selecting unit selects the support language from the supportable languages depending on the group to which the requested language belongs.

8. The server device according to claim 7, wherein the attribute information includes second group information for specifying the supportable languages in the group to which the requested language belongs, and the language selecting unit selects the supportable language in the group to which the requested language belongs as the support language.

9. The server device according to claim 7, wherein the language identification information includes at least a second identifier and the first group information is associated depending on the second identifiers.

10. The server device according to claim 9, wherein the second identifier is a country code.

11. The server device according to claim 1, the requested language recognizing unit recognizes the requested language by acquiring the language identification information included in an information request sent from the client device.

12. The server device according to claim 1, further comprising an attribute information storage unit in which the attribute information preliminarily determined is stored in association with the language identification information,

wherein the attribute information acquiring unit acquires the attribute information from the attribute information storage unit.

13. A method used in a server device which can provide a client device with information in a plurality of languages, the method comprising:

recognizing a plurality of supportable languages using language identification information;

recognizing a requested language desired by the client device using the language identification information;

acquiring attribute information associated with the language identification information; and

selecting one supportable language from the supportable languages as a support language in which information is provided to the client device, by using the attribute information when the language identification information of the requested language does not match with the language identification information of any supportable language.

14. A computer program which enables a computer to perform a server function of providing a client device with information in a plurality of languages, the server function comprising:

a first function of recognizing a plurality of supportable languages using language identification information;

a second function of recognizing a requested language desired by the client device using the language identification information;

a third function of acquiring attribute information associated with the language identification information; and

a fourth function of selecting one supportable language from the plurality of supportable languages as a support language in which information is provided to the client device, using the attribute information when the language identification information of the requested language does not match with the language identification information of any supportable language.