Method and apparatus for synchronous updating of multiple language web content

• US 7,254,591 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2004
• Issued: 08/07/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: VIA Technologies Incorporated (VIA Technologies)
• Original Assignee: VIA Technologies Incorporated (VIA Technologies)
• Inventors: Ting, Yi-Mei, Wu, Chien-Hsing
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaffin, Jeffrey
• Assistant Examiner(s): Veillard, Jacques
• Application Number:
  US10/804,129
• Publication Number:
  US 20050010614A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,236 Days
• Field of Search: 707/2, 707/10, 707/100, 707/102, 707/104.1, 707/201, 707203-204, 707/200, 709/200, 709/203, 709/217, 709/219, 709223-225, 709/201, 709/246
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99952 Coherency, e.g. same view to multiple users

Abstract

A method for synchronous updating of multiple language web content for use in a primary server and several secondary servers. The method first employs a timer to notify the primary server. The primary server then searches for updated content in web content, composes an updated web content file, and synchronously transmits the updated web content file to the secondary servers in response to the notification. After receiving the updated web content file, the secondary server compiles the updated web content file, codes it by dynamically linking to a language code setting, transfers the updated web content file according to a specific language, and updates web content corresponding to the web content on the primary server using the updated web content file.

Claims

1. A method of synchronously updating of multiple language web content, comprising the steps of:

providing a primary server and a plurality of secondary servers, in which the primary server has first web content in a first language and a timer, and each secondary server has a language code setting and second web content corresponding to the first web content on the primary server in a respective one of a plurality of second languages;

notifying the primary server by the timer such that the primary server searches for updated web content in the first web content, composes an updated web content file accordingly, and synchronously transmits the updated web content file as a compressed data file from the primary server over a network to the secondary servers in response to notification;

compiling updated web content files at the secondary servers, and coding the updated web content file of each secondary server by dynamically linking to the language code setting of that secondary server;

translating the updated web content file of each secondary server from the first language into the respective one of the second languages; and

updating the second web content on each secondary server based on its updated web content file.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the first web content comprises one file based on a specific format recognized by a browser.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the second web content comprises one file based on a specific format recognized by a browser.

4. A method for synchronous updating of web content for use in a secondary server having a language code setting and second web content in a second language, comprising the steps of:

receiving an updated web content file over a network, the updated web content file being a compressed data file;

compiling the updated web content file, and coding the updated web content file by dynamically linking to the language code setting;

translating the updated web content file from a first language into the second language; and

updating the second web content using the updated web content file.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4 wherein the updated web content file is received from a primary server.

6. The method as claimed in claim 4 wherein the second web content comprises at least one file based on a specific format recognized by a browser.

7. An apparatus for updating web content, comprising:

a primary server having first web content in a first language and a timer, the primary server searching for updates in the first web content, composing an updated web content file accordingly, and transmitting the updated web content file as a compressed data file in response to a notification from the timer, the updated web content file being transmitted over a network; and

a plurality of secondary servers, each of which has a language code setting and second web content corresponding to the web content on the primary server in a second language, to receive the updated web content file from the primary server, compile the updated web content file, code the updated web content file by dynamically linking to the language code setting, translate the updated web content file from the first language into the second language, and update the web content based on the updated web content file.

8. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7 wherein the first web content on the primary server comprises at least one file based on a specific format recognized by a browser.

9. The apparatus as claimed in claim 7 wherein the second web content in the secondary server comprises at least one file based on a specific format recognized by a browser.

10. A machine-readable storage medium storing a computer program which when executed causes a computer to perform a method of synchronous updating of web content for use in a secondary server having a language code setting and second web content in a second language, said method including the steps of:

receiving an updated web content file over a network, the updated web content file being a compressed data file;

compiling the updated web content file, and coding the updated web content file by dynamically linking to the language code setting;

translating the updated web content file from a first language into the second language; and

updating the second web content based on the updated web content file.

11. The storage medium as claimed in claim 10 wherein the updated web content file is received from a primary server.

12. The storage medium as claimed in claim 10 wherein the second web content comprises at least one file based on a specific format recognized by a browser.