SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCALIZING DISPLAY OF APPLICATIONS FOR DOWNLOAD

• US 20100011354A1
• Filed: 07/10/2008
• Published: 01/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Hwang, Yoon Sub, Makower, David, Cortes, Ricardo, Gharabally, Sam
• Granted Patent: US 8,650,561 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/178
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer readable-media for localizing display of applications for download, the method including receiving from a developer and ingesting into an online store an application localized in different languages, including a designated default language, determining a local language of a user desiring to download the application from the online store, presenting to the user an interface to download a version of the application in the user'"'"'s local language if the application is available in the user'"'"'s local language, and presenting to the user an interface to download the version of the application in the designated default language if the application is unavailable in the user'"'"'s local language. In one aspect, a list of all available localized versions is presented to the user. In another aspect, statistics about when the user desires an unavailable localized version are recorded and reported to the developer. One variation includes receiving from the user a request for an unavailable localized version, and forwarding the request to the developer. To assist a customer in selecting a proper localized version, the method can display to the user one or more representative screenshots of the localized application. In the case of people who speak more than one language, determining a local language of a user further includes determining one or more secondary local languages and/or assigning an order of priority to the secondary languages.

Claims

1. A method for localizing display of applications for download, the method comprising:

receiving from a developer and ingesting into an online store an application localized in different languages, including a designated default language;

determining a local language of a user desiring to download the application from the online store;

presenting to the user an interface to download a version of the application in the user'"'"'s local language if the application is available in the user'"'"'s local language; and

presenting to the user an interface to download the version of the application in the designated default language if the application is unavailable in the user'"'"'s local language.

2. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising presenting a list of all available localized versions to the user.

3. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

recording statistics about when the user desires an unavailable localized version; and

reporting the statistics to the developer.

4. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

receiving from the user a request for an unavailable localized version; and

forwarding the request to the developer.

5. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising displaying to the user one or more representative screenshots of the localized application.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein determining a local language of a user further comprises determining one or more secondary local languages.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the one or more secondary local languages are assigned an order of priority.

8. A system for localizing display of applications for download, the system comprising:

a module configured to receive from a developer and ingesting into an online store an application localized in different languages, including a designated default language;

a module configured to determine a local language of a user desiring to download the application from the online store;

a module configured to present to the user an interface to download a version of the application in the user'"'"'s local language if the application is available in the user'"'"'s local language; and

a module configured to present to the user an interface to download the version of the application in the designated default language if the application is unavailable in the user'"'"'s local language.

9. The system of claim 8, the system further comprising a module configured to present a list of all available localized versions to the user.

10. The system of claim 8, the system further comprising:

a module configured to record statistics about when the user desires an unavailable localized version; and

a module configured to report the statistics to the developer.

11. The system of claim 8, the system further comprising:

a module configured to receive from the user a request for an unavailable localized version; and

a module configured to forward the request to the developer.

12. The system of claim 8, the system further comprising a module configured to display to the user one or more representative screenshots of the localized application.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the module configured to determine the local language of the user further determines one or more secondary local languages.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the one or more secondary local languages are assigned an order of priority.

15. A computer-readable medium storing a computer program having instructions for localizing display of applications for download, the instructions comprising:

receiving from a developer and ingesting into an online store an application localized in different languages, including a designated default language;

determining a local language of a user desiring to download the application from the online store;

presenting to the user an interface to download a version of the application in the user'"'"'s local language if the application is available in the user'"'"'s local language; and

presenting to the user an interface to download the version of the application in the designated default language if the application is unavailable in the user'"'"'s local language.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, the instructions further comprising presenting a list of all available localized versions to the user.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, the instructions further comprising:

recording statistics about when the user desires an unavailable localized version; and

reporting the statistics to the developer.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, the instructions further comprising:

receiving from the user a request for an unavailable localized version; and

forwarding the request to the developer.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, the instructions further comprising displaying to the user one or more representative screenshots of the localized application.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein determining a local language of a user further comprises determining one or more secondary local languages.