System and method for product migration in multiple languages

• US 20060080082A1
• Filed: 08/23/2005
• Published: 04/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Geneva Software Technologies Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Geneva Software Technologies Ltd.
• Inventors: Narasimha Rao, Vinjamuri Venkata, Krishnan, Ramadevi, Ravindra, Vinjamuri Venkata
• Application Number:
  US11/208,518
• Publication Number:
  US 20060080082A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation

Abstract

The system and method of the present invention provides for product migration in multiple languages without effecting any change to basic configuration of the source application system. The system comprises user interface, database member to store need-based application modules, migration enabling components, languages, address locations having character and/or character modifier profile generating executables and transformation engine; a product migrating processor to enable migration of the source application into the target application; a memory device and an display member to display the migrated application. Initially a source application is input and a target language is selected. Then selection and execution of need-based applications corresponding to the selected source application is performed. Then product migration of source application into target application is carried out by implementing migration enabling components and the migrated product is rendered on which transformation is performed to finally display the migrated target application at the display member.

Claims

1. A system for migrating source application into a multiple-language target applications, said system comprising:

(a) a user interface as a means to input source application data and to select target application language,

(b) a database member disposed to store plurality of need-based application modules,

(c) said database member disposed to store migration enabling components to cause migration from source to target application,

(d) said database member disposed to store languages, address locations having character and/or character modifier profile generating executables and a transformation engine,

(e) a product migrating processor means to enable migration of the source application into the target application by implementing migration enabling components,

(f) said product migrating processor disposed to form character and/or character modifier,

(g) said product migrating processor disposed to invoke the transformation engine corresponding to the resultant character and/or character modifier and source application from the database member,

(h) said processor disposed to perform transformation and to render the resultant migrated product,

(i) a memory device to provide a temporary dynamic storage for the input source application and work area for product migration, and

(j) a display member to display the migrated application.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the user interface is selected from a keyboard, a touch screen or a stylus input from a PC/Server, keypad input or stylus input from a PDA, keypad input or a stylus input from a cellular phone.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the display member is selected from LCD, PDA and VDU.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the need-based application modules depend on the type of source application, said need-based applications comprising,

(a) product extract information module consisting of business functions component, product architecture component, an operating system version extract component, a window count extract component, a report count extract component and a java libraries extract component,

(b) general feature extract information module consisting of classification of windows component, a localization help component and finally a cultural data component,

i. said cultural data component consisting of, time-date-calendar sub-component, numerical sub-component, currency sub-component, three-letter currency code sub-component and sorting sub-component,

(c) business logic extract module consisting of international data component, concatenation of text component, common text component, data handling component, multi-byte character systems component, third party component, time zones component, inter locale character component, input method editor (IME) interface component and translatable component;

i. said translatable component consisting of, run-time translatable sub-component, message catalog sub-component and non-message sub-component,

(d) data services extract module consisting of database storage component, performance factor component, data transfer component, encoding component and database configuration component and

(e) presentation layer module consisting of client side component, input validation component, UI adaptation component, image version component, style sheets component, prompts component, e-forms component, regional UI component flag, consistent terminology component, grammar component, white space component, culture specific component, visual component, printing component, text expansion component, internationalization component, resizing component, personalization component, locale component

5. A method for migrating source application into a multiple-language target applications, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) inputting a source application,

(b) selecting a target application language from a plurality of languages,

(c) storing the source application in a memory member,

(d) initiating a system check process to identify the type of operating system,

(e) executing operating system specific modules,

(f) reading the source application,

(g) checking for the availability of Unicode or non-Unicode compatibility,

(h) selecting and executing need-based applications corresponding to the selected source application,

(i) performing product migration of source application into target application by means of implementing migration enabling components to form a migrated product,

(j) rendering of the migrated product,

(k) performing transformation on the rendered product, and

(l) displaying the final target application at the display member.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the rendering of migrated product is carried out by a method of rendering of multi-lingual characters from a combination of pixels;

said method comprising steps of,

(a) choosing a character and/or character modifier from the source application to be rendered,

(b) fetching an appropriate address of the address location for said character and/or character modifier by mapping from the database member, said address location comprising corresponding character and/or character modifier profile generating executables,

(c) shifting the address of the selected address location to a memory member,

(d) securing the corresponding character and/or character modifier profile generating executables from said address location, into the memory member, by a product migrating processor, and

(e) generating a pixel sequence, which is associated with the shape of the character and/or character modifier and storing the same in the memory member.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the generating of pixel sequence having a desired character width and height, said method comprising the steps of:

(a) reading display resolution from environment settings,

(b) picking up appropriate character matrix ratio for the selected display member,

(c) initializing a character positioning counter with an initial value of “

1”

, where “

1”

is the left-most coordinate of the selected display member,

(d) initializing the pixel column counter with “

0”

,

(e) initializing the pixel row counter with “

0”

,

(f) reading the row and column values iteratively and plotting appropriate pixel to form a pixelized character matrix till the terminal row and column counters equal to “

n”

, and incrementing the value of pixel column and row counters by 1, and

(g) incrementing the character positioning counter after the formation of a single character and/or modifier by a pre-determined value and generating the final form of character derived from pixel matrix.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein said transformation comprising the steps of:

(a) scaling the height and width of the character and character modifier as per dimensions and dots per inch of display,

(b) fusing or merging the scaled character with the scaled character modifier at the points of scaling, to form the resultant character along with the fused modifier, and

(c) determining spacing between any two resultant characters and spacing within each individual character, wherever applicable.