Context enriched application text translation

• US 10,083,174 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2017
• Issued: 09/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bareket, Amit, Parag, Nadav, Ravid, Dan, Riechberg, Tamir, Weiss, Moshe
• Primary Examiner(s): Goddard, Tammy Paige
• Assistant Examiner(s): HARRIS, KEARA S
• Application Number:
  US15/791,541
• Publication Number:
  US 20180046616A1
• Time in Patent Office: 336 Days
• 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

Abstract

A multilayered context enriched text translation interface includes a simulation layer comprising one or more text objects and a translation layer. The interface displays one or more mimicked views of an application GUI in the simulation layer. Subsequent to a user engaging a text object, the interface displays a prompt for a text translation of the text object within a translation layer. In certain embodiments, the mimicked views are graphical reproductions of the application GUI pages with functionality of one or more text objects of the application GUI disabled. In certain embodiments, the prompt includes an accentuation objects to visually accentuate the text object, a text-editing object to receive the text translation of the text object, and a link object to visually connect the accentuation objects and text-editing object.

Claims

1. A computer system comprising:

a touch screen;

a processor communicatively connected to a memory;

the memory comprising program instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the computer system to;

display a mimicked view of an application graphical user interface (GUI) upon the touch screen in a simulation layer of a multilayered translation interface, wherein the mimicked view is a graphical reproduction of the application GUI with functionality of the one or more text objects of the application GUI disabled, and wherein the simulation layer comprises one or more text objects;

subsequent to a user touch engaging a text object within the simulation layer, display a prompt for a user to enter a text translation of the touch engaged text object within a translation layer of the multilayered translation interface, wherein the prompt further comprises an accentuation object within the translation layer to visually accentuate the engaged text object;

a text-editing object within the translation layer to receive the text translation of the engaged text objet from the user via the touch screen, and a link object within the translation layer that visually connects the accentuation object and the text-editing object;

receive the text translation of the touch engaged text object; and

display the text translation within the mimicked view in the simulation layer in place of the engaged text object.

2. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the prompt is displayed outside of the simulation layer such that the prompt does not overlap the simulation layer.

3. The computer system of claim 1, wherein the prompt is displayed within the simulation layer such that the prompt overlaps the simulation layer.

4. The computer system of claim 1, further comprising:

a language resource file of the application stored within the memory, the language resource file corresponding with the language of translation and comprising the received text translation of the touch engaged text object.

5. A computer system comprising:

a display screen;

a processor communicatively connected to a memory;

the memory comprising program instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the computer system to;

display a mimicked view of an application graphical user interface (GUI) upon the display screen in a simulation layer of a multilayered translation interface, wherein the mimicked view is a graphical reproduction of the application GUI with functionality of the one or more text objects of the application GUI disabled, and wherein the simulation layer comprises one or more text objects;

subsequent to a user engaging a text object within the simulation layer, display a prompt for a user to enter a text translation of the touch engaged text object within a translation layer of the multilayered translation interface, wherein the prompt further comprises an accentuation object within the translation layer to visually accentuate the engaged text object;

a text-editing object within the translation layer to receive the text translation of the engaged text objet from the user via a keyboard, and a link object within the translation layer that visually connects the accentuation object and the text-editing object;

receive the text translation of the engaged text object; and

display the text translation within the mimicked view in the simulation layer in place of the engaged text object.

6. The computer system of claim 5, wherein the prompt is displayed outside of the simulation layer such that the prompt does not overlap the simulation layer.

7. The computer system of claim 5, wherein the prompt is displayed within the simulation layer such that the prompt overlaps the simulation layer.

8. The computer system of claim 5, further comprising:

a language resource file of the application stored within the memory, the language resource file corresponding with the language of translation and comprising the received text translation of the touch engaged text object.

9. A computer system comprising:

a screen;

a processor communicatively connected to a memory;

the memory comprising program instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the computer system to display an application graphical user interface (GUI) upon the screen, the application GUI comprising;

a simulation layer that displays one or more mimicked views of the application GUI, wherein the mimicked views are graphical reproductions of the application GUI pages with functionality of one or more text objects of the application GUI disabled;

a translation layer that displays a prompt for a text translation of the one or more text objects displayed within the simulation layer, subsequent to a user engaging the one or more text objects, wherein the prompt comprises;

one or more accentuation objects to visually accentuate the engaged one or more text objects;

one or more text-editing objects to receive the text translation of the engaged one or more text objects via a keyboard of the computer system, and;

one or more link objects to visually connect one or more accentuation objects with respective one or more text-editing objects;

wherein upon the receipt of the text translation of the engaged one or more text objects, the application GUI further comprises the text translation within the mimicked view in the simulation layer in place of the engaged one or more text objects.

10. The computer system of claim 9, wherein the prompt is displayed outside of the simulation layer such that the prompt does not overlap the simulation layer.

11. The computer system of claim 9, wherein the prompt is displayed within the simulation layer such that the prompt overlaps the simulation layer.