Abstract: A system and method for providing multi-locale and multi-currency applications that may be used by multiple users, each of which submits requests and expects replies in a different language or currency. In one embodiment, a user at a client computer submits a request for information to a server. The server identifies a locale (including attributes such as language) and/or currency (including appropriate format of presentation) to associate with the user, and then constructs a dynamic Web page that contains text in at least one of a plurality of languages and/or currency and other symbols in any one of a plurality of language formats. If the user requests a locale, language or currency format that is not supported, the present system and method will determine a default or alternate response that will closely satisfy the user's request.

Abstract: Name Type Value Storage (“NTV”) provides a very flexible technique for storing data for use in the Internet and in World Wide Web based applications. NTV provides a list of values or names, referred to as triplets, that is used to identify a correspondence. In the triplet, NTV provides both an identifier and a name of a type, where a type can be one of several things, e.g. a type can be an integer, a floating point number, a string, an array of any of those values, or an another NTV object. A third part of the triplet is the actual value itself, which is stored in its native type.