Storage device that provides efficient, updatable national language support for a mobile device
First Claim
1. A computer-readable storage device comprising computer executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, will cause the computer to perform a method of providing a virtual national language support file, the method comprising:
- providing a plurality of national language support file segments, the plurality of national language support file segments including a national language support base segment providing first locale data and a plurality of locale file pointers, each of the plurality of local file pointers comprising a table containing a locale identification and a file offset pair for each of a plurality of locales contained in the virtual national language support file, the file offset comprising at least one of Unicode data and sortkey data, the table being sorted by the locale identification in an increasing order, the plurality of national language support file segments further including at least one national language support segment for providing second locale data; and
logically binding the plurality of national language support file segments in a wrapper.
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Abstract
Efficient, updatable national language support for a mobile device is provided. NLS file segments are provided in a wrapper in the Virtual NLS file. Segments may be organized by language family. The number of segments that need to be searched is also minimized. At any point, any of the pointers for the dynamically updatable query table can be shifted around to improve performance. Existing APIs may be used for obtaining locale information by causing the APIs to iterate through all the known NLS segments in a specified search order.
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16 Claims
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1. A computer-readable storage device comprising computer executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, will cause the computer to perform a method of providing a virtual national language support file, the method comprising:
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providing a plurality of national language support file segments, the plurality of national language support file segments including a national language support base segment providing first locale data and a plurality of locale file pointers, each of the plurality of local file pointers comprising a table containing a locale identification and a file offset pair for each of a plurality of locales contained in the virtual national language support file, the file offset comprising at least one of Unicode data and sortkey data, the table being sorted by the locale identification in an increasing order, the plurality of national language support file segments further including at least one national language support segment for providing second locale data; and logically binding the plurality of national language support file segments in a wrapper. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for providing a virtual national language support file, comprising:
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providing, by a mobile computing device, a plurality of national language support file segments, wherein the plurality of national language support file segments include a national language support base segment providing first locale data and a plurality of locale file pointers, each of the plurality of locale file pointers comprising a table containing a locale identification and a file offset pair for each of a plurality of locales contained in the virtual national language support file, the file offset comprising at least one of Unicode data and sortkey data, the table being sorted by the locale identification in an increasing order, the plurality of national language support file segments further including at least one national language support segment for providing second locale data; logically binding, by the mobile computing device, the plurality of national language support file segments in a wrapper; and searching, by the mobile computing device the plurality of national language support file segments using a dynamically modifiable search order, the dynamically modifiable search order comprising reorganizing the search of frequently used national language support file segments based on the locale identification. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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