Customized and contextual translated content for travelers

• US 10,191,903 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2016
• Issued: 01/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Lewis, William Duncan, Chowdhary, Vishal Chandulal, Surti, Tanvi Saumil
• Primary Examiner(s): Albertalli, Brian L
• Application Number:
  US15/282,089
• Publication Number:
  US 20180095949A1
• Time in Patent Office: 851 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/243 Natural language query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24575 using context
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/242 Dictionaries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/45 Example-based machine translation; Alignment
• 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: G10L 13/08 Text analysis or generation of parameters for speech synthesis out of text, e.g. grapheme to phoneme translation, prosody generation or stress or intonation determination

Abstract

A user context generator determines one or both of a location of a user and contextual information for the user. The contextual information is indicative of content of interest to the user. A custom content generator engine generates customized translated content for the user. Generating the customized translated content includes selecting, from translated content stored in a database, based on the one or both of the determined location of the user and the determined contextual information for the user, translated content to be presented to the user. The customized translated content includes a set of phrases in a source language and corresponding translations of phrases, in the set of phrases, from the source language to a target language. The selected translated content is displayed to the user, such that the user is provided with translated content of interest to the user.

Claims

1. A customized translated content system, comprising:

a local database of a user device, the local database configured to store translated content;

a user context generator configured to determine one or both of (i) a location of the user device and (ii) contextual information for the user device, the contextual information indicative of content of interest to a user of the user device; and

a custom content generator engine configured to

generate customized translated content for the user, wherein the customized translated content includes (i) a plurality of phrases in a source language and (ii) corresponding translations of phrases, in the plurality of phrases, from the source language to a target language, and wherein generating the customized translated content includes selecting, from generalized translated content stored in the local database, respective phrases of the plurality of phrases, wherein the selecting is based on the one or both of the determined location of the user and the determined contextual information for the user; and

cause the customized translated content to be displayed to the user such that the selected plurality of phrases and corresponding translations are surfaced to the user from the local database of the user device without requiring a phrase query input from the user of the user device.

2. The customized translated content system of claim 1, wherein the user context generator is configured to determine the one or both of the location of the user and the contextual information for the user based on travel itinerary data obtained for the user.

3. The customized translated content system of claim 2, wherein the user context generator is configured to obtain the travel itinerary data by searching emails of the user to find emails related to travel that include the itinerary data.

4. The customized translated content system of claim 2, wherein the custom content generator engine is configured to generate at least some of the customized content for the user by inserting, into at least one predetermined phrase, at least one specific travel detail obtained from the travel itinerary data for the user.

5. The customized translated content system of claim 1, wherein the user context generator is configured to determine a geographical location of the user, and wherein the custom content generator engine is further configured to generate the customized translated content based on collected translation queries stored in a global database communicatively coupled to the user device, the collected translation entries entered by other users in the geographical location of the user.

6. The customized translated content system of claim 1, wherein the user context generator is configured to determine a contextual location of the user, and wherein the custom content generator engine is further configured to generate the customized translated content based at least in part on collected translation queries stored in a global database communicatively coupled to the user device, the collected translation entries entered by other users in same contextual locations in geographical locations other than a geographical location of the user.

7. The customized translated content system of claim 1, further comprising one or both of (i) travel specific speech recognition engine and (ii) travel specific text to speech engine, wherein the one or both of (i) travel specific speech recognition engine and (ii) travel specific text to speech engine are trained based on travel content.

8. The customized translated content system of claim 1, further comprising an emergency content generator configured to store, in a global database communicatively coupled to the user device, crowdsourced human provided translations for a predetermined set of emergency phrases from a source language into a local language of an emergency location, wherein the custom content generator engine is further configured to generate the customized translated content based at least in part on the crowdsourced human provided translations stored in the global database.

9. A tangible, non-transitory computer readable storage medium, or media, storing machine readable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

determine one or both of (i) a location of a user device and (ii) contextual information for the user device, the contextual information indicative of content of interest to a user of the user device;

generate-customized translated content to be presented to the user, wherein the customized translated content includes (i) a plurality of phrases in a source language and (ii) corresponding translations of phrases, in the plurality of phrases, from the source language to a target language, and wherein generating the customized translated content includes selecting, from generalized translated content stored in a local database of the user device, respective phrases of the plurality of phrases, wherein the selecting is based on the one or both of the determined location of the user and the determined contextual information for the user; and

cause the customized translated content to be displayed to the user such that the selected plurality of phrases and corresponding translations are surfaced to the user from the local database of the user device without requiring a phrase query input from the user of the user device.

10. The tangible, non-transitory computer readable storage medium or media of claim 9, wherein the machine readable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to determine the one or both of the location of the user and the contextual information for the user based on travel itinerary data obtained for the user.

11. The tangible, non-transitory computer readable storage medium or media of claim 9, wherein the machine readable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to obtain the travel itinerary data by searching emails of the user to find emails related to travel that include the itinerary data.

12. The tangible, non-transitory computer readable storage medium or media of claim 9, wherein the machine readable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to generate at least some of the customized content for the user by inserting, into at least one predetermined phrase, at least one specific travel detail obtained from the travel itinerary date for the user.

13. The tangible, non-transitory computer readable storage medium or media of claim 9, wherein the machine readable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to

determine a geographical location of the user, and

generate the customized translated content further based on collected translation queries stored in a global database communicatively coupled to the user device, the collected translation entries entered by other users in the geographical location of the user.

14. The tangible, non-transitory computer readable storage medium or media of claim 9, wherein the machine readable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to

determine a contextual location of the user, and

generate the customized translated content further based at least in part on collected translation queries stored in a global database communicative coupled to the user device, the collected translation entries entered by other users in same contextual locations as the contextual location of the user and in geographical locations other than a geographical location of the user.

15. The tangible, non-transitory computer readable storage medium or media of claim 9, wherein the machine readable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors further cause the one or more processors to generate the customized translated content further based at least in part on crowdsourced human provided translations for a predetermined set of emergency phrases from the source language into a local language of an emergency location, the crowdsourced human provided translations stored in a global database communicatively coupled to the user device.

16. A computer implemented method for generating customized translated content, the method comprising:

determining, by a processor, one or both of (i) a location of a user device and (ii) contextual information for the user device, the contextual information indicative of content of interest to a user of the user device;

generating, by the processor, customized translated content to be presented to the user, wherein the customized translated content includes (i) a plurality of phrases in a source language and (ii) corresponding translations of phrases, in the plurality of phrases, from the source language to a target language, and wherein generating the customized translated content includes selecting, from generalized translated content stored in a local database of the user device, respective phrases of the plurality of phrases, wherein the selecting is based on the one or both of the determined location of the user and the determined contextual information for the user; and

causing, by the processor, the customized translated content to be displayed to the user such that the selected plurality of phrases and corresponding translations are surfaced to the user from the local database of the user device without requiring a phrase query input from the user of the user device.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein determining the one or both of the location of the user and the contextual information for the user comprises determining the one or both of the location of the user and the contextual information for the user based on travel itinerary data obtained for the user.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising obtaining the travel itinerary data corresponding to the user by searching emails of the user to find emails that contain the itinerary data corresponding to the user.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein generating the customized translated content for the user includes generating at least some of the customized content for the user by inserting, into at least one predetermined phrase, at least one specific travel detail obtained from the travel itinerary data for the user.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein

determining the location of the user includes determine one or both of (i) geographical location of the user and (ii) contextual location of the user, and

generating the customized translated content includes generating the customized translated content further based on collected translation queries stored in a global database communicatively coupled to the user device, the collected translation entries entered by other users in the one or both of (i) geographical location of the user and (ii) contextual location of the user.