Method and apparatus for providing a web site having a home page that automatically adapts to user language and customs
First Claim
1. A computer system having a data communications interface connected to the internet and operating as a server comprising:
- storage means for storing a plurality of initial displays of said server, with each of said plurality of initial displays being in one of a plurality of languages;
means for reading a location code from each user'"'"'s domain designation; and
means for selecting an initial display of said plurality of initial displays that is in one of said languages that corresponds to the dominant language for the location indicated by the location code from each user'"'"'s domain designation.
10 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
In order to make the world wide web truly world wide, a method and apparatus is provided such that accesses to a world wide web home page can be responded to with a home page adapted to the language or dialect that is most likely to to match the native language or dialect of the user. To provide this, the user'"'"'s country code, numerical node address, or the user'"'"'s client system address is matched in a database to provide the most likely language. Other languages may be selected if the choice is incorrect and the database will remember that selection for future accesses. Further, since some data transmissions are regulated by national law, the user and client location information is used by the server to prevent the server or the client from violating their respective national laws.
-
Citations
32 Claims
-
1. A computer system having a data communications interface connected to the internet and operating as a server comprising:
-
storage means for storing a plurality of initial displays of said server, with each of said plurality of initial displays being in one of a plurality of languages; means for reading a location code from each user'"'"'s domain designation; and means for selecting an initial display of said plurality of initial displays that is in one of said languages that corresponds to the dominant language for the location indicated by the location code from each user'"'"'s domain designation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
-
-
6. A computer system having a data communications interface connected to the internet and operating as a server comprising:
-
storage means for storing a plurality of initial displays of said server, with each of said plurality of initial displays being in one of a plurality of languages; means for reading a location code from each user'"'"'s node address; and means for selecting an initial display of said plurality of initial displays that is in one of said languages that corresponds to the dominant language for the location indicated by the location code from each user'"'"'s node address. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
-
-
12. A computer system having a data communications interface connected to the internet and operating as a server comprising:
-
computer storage storing a plurality of initial displays of the server, with each of said plurality of initial displays being in one of a plurality of languages; a processor receiving a location code from each user'"'"'s internet domain designation by said data communications interface; and said processor selecting an initial display of said plurality of initial displays that is in one of said languages that corresponds to the dominant language for the location indicated by the location code from each user'"'"'s domain designation. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
-
-
22. A computer system having a data communications interface connected to the internet and operating as a server comprising:
-
computer storage storing a plurality of initial displays of the server, with each of said plurality of initial displays being in one of a plurality of languages; a processor receiving a location code from each user'"'"'s node address; and said processor selecting an initial display of said plurality of initial displays that is in one of said languages that corresponds to the dominant language for the location indicated by the location code from each user'"'"'s node address. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
-
Specification