US PATENT SUBCLASS 704 / 8
.~ Multilingual or national language support

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704 /   HD   DATA PROCESSING: SPEECH SIGNAL PROCESSING, LINGUISTICS, LANGUAGE TRANSLATION, AND AUDIO COMPRESSION/DECOMPRESSION

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8.~ Multilingual or national language support

DEFINITION

Classification: 704/8

Multilingual or national language support:

(under subclass 1) Subject matter including means or steps to adapt to, process, or support plural languages in systems or in software (i.e., providing language identifiers on files or providing screen prompts in a selected language), or to support the conventions or peculiarities of various national languages (i.e., alphabetical ordering, date or currency indications).

SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:

200+, for details of translation between multiple languages.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

345, Computer Graphics Processing, Operator Interface Processing, and Selective Visual Display Processing,

333+, for customization or edition of operator interfaces.

707, Data Processing: Database and File Management, Data Structures, or Document Processing, 536, for composing or editing multiple languages in a document.