Pre-translated multi-lingual email system, method, and computer program product

• US 20020193986A1
• Filed: 08/05/2002
• Published: 12/19/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alphonsus Albertus Schirris
• Original Assignee: Alphonsus Albertus Schirris
• Inventors: Schirris, Alphonsus Albertus
• Application Number:
  US10/211,303
• Publication Number:
  US 20020193986A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/313 Selection or weighting of terms for indexing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/55 Rule-based translation
• 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 system, method and computer program product for generating a multi-lingual email message including generating a unique identifier (UID) code for a term; translating the term into a plurality of languages giving rise to a plurality of pre-translated terms to the UID; associating the term and the plurality of translated terms with the UID; and storing the term, the plurality of translated terms, and the UID, in a UID database. In another embodiment, a system, method and computer program product are provided for reviewing the multi-lingual email message including receiving the multilingual email message from a sender; parsing the multi-lingual query into a plurality of UID associated terms; determining a UID code corresponding to each term within the message querying a database using the UIDs and displaying the translated term corresponding to the UID, resulting in a translated message in a language selected by the resipient of the message.

Claims

1. A method of generating a multilingual email message comprising:

(a) receiving a selection of an initial language in which to generate a multilingual email message;

(b) receiving a selection from a sender of one or more terms from a plurality of translated terms each associated with a corresponding unique identifier (UID); and

(c) storing said corresponding UIDs of said one or more terms into a file associated with said multilingual email message.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

(d) receiving input from the sender of one or more non translated terms without a corresponding UID; and

(e) storing said nontranslated terms in said file associated with said multilingual email message.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

(d) receiving a send instruction from the sender; and

(e) generating an email message comprising a link operative to allow viewing of said multilingual email message by a recipient.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

(f) receiving a selection of a display language from the recipient; and

(g) providing the multilingual email message in said display language to the recipient for viewing.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said plurality of translated terms are stored in a UID database and said UID database is used as a multilingual dictionary.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein at least one of said display language and said initial language is selected from the group consisting of Chinese, English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, Farsi, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Swedish, Danish, Swahili, and Italian.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said plurality of translated terms comprise at least one of:

a word, a phrase, a plurality of words, an expression, a sentence, a grammatical term, a noun, a verb, an object, an article, a pronoun, an adjective, an adverb, a salutation, and a closing.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein said nontranslated terms comprise at least one of:

a word, a phrase, a plurality of words, an expression, a sentence, a grammatical term, a noun, a verb, an object, an article, a pronoun, an adjective, an adverb, a salutation, and a closing.

9. A method of displaying a multilingual email message comprising:

(a) sending an email to a recipient comprising a link to a file associated with a multilingual email message, said file comprising a plurality of stored UIDs associated with one or more terms selected from a plurality of translated terms;

(b) receiving a selection of a display language in which to view said multilingual email message; and

(c) displaying said multilingual email message in said display language.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein said file further comprises one or more nontranslated terms.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein each of said plurality of stored UIDs correspond to a plurality of translated terms in a plurality of languages.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein said display language comprises at least one of Chinese, English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, Farsi, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Swedish, Danish, Swahili, and Italian.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein said plurality of translated terms comprise at least one of a word, a phrase, a plurality of words, an expression, a sentence, a grammatical term, a noun, a verb, an object, an article, a pronoun, an adjective, an adverb, a salutation, and a closing.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein said nontranslated terms comprise at least one of a word, a phrase, a plurality of words, an expression, a sentence, a grammatical term, a noun, a verb, an object, an article, a pronoun, an adjective, an adverb, a salutation, and a closing.

16. The system of claim 15 further comprising:

means for receiving input from the sender of one or more nontranslated terms without a corresponding UID; and

means for storing said non translated terms in a file associated with said multilingual email message.

17. The system of claim 15, further comprising:

means for receiving a send instruction; and

means for receiving an email message comprising a link operative to allow viewing of said multilingual email message by a recipient.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising:

means for receiving a selection of a display language from the recipients; and

means for providing the multilingual email message in said display language.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein said plurality of translated terms are stored in a UID database.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein at least one of said display language and said initial language is selected from the group consisting of Chinese, English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, Farsi, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Swedish, Danish, Swahili, and Italian.

21. The system of claim 15, wherein said plurality of translated terms comprise at least one of:

a word, a phrase, a plurality of words, an expression, a sentence, a grammatical term, a noun, a verb, an object, an article, a pronoun, an adjective, an adverb, a salutation, and a closing.

22. The system of claim 16, wherein said nontranslated terms comprise at least one of:

a word, a phrase, a plurality of words, an expression, a sentence, a grammatical term, a noun, a verb, an object, an article, a pronoun, an adjective, an adverb, a salutation, and a closing.

24. The computer system of claim 23, wherein said file further comprises nontranslated terms.

25. The computer system of claim 23, wherein each of said plurality of stored UIDs correspond to a plurality of translated terms in a plurality of languages.

26. The computer system of claim 23, wherein said display language comprises at least one of Chinese, English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, Farsi, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Swedish, Danish, Swahili, and Italian.

27. The computer system of claim 23, wherein said plurality of translated terms comprise at least one of a word, a phrase, a plurality of words, an expression, a sentence, a grammatical term, a noun, a verb, an object, an article, a pronoun, an adjective, an adverb, a salutation, and a closing.

28. The computer system of claim 24, wherein said nontranslated terms comprise at least one of a word, a phrase, a plurality of words, an expression, a sentence, a grammatical term, a noun, a verb, an object, an article, a pronoun, an adjective, an adverb, a salutation, and a closing.

30. The computer program product of claim 29 further comprising program logic operative to enable a computer to input of one or more non translated terms without a corresponding UID and program logic operative to enable a computer to store said non translated terms in said file associated with said multilingual email message.

15. A system for generating and storing a multilingual email message comprising:

means for receiving a selection of an initial language in which to generate a multilingual email message;

means for receiving a selection from a sender of one or more terms from a plurality of translated terms each associated with a corresponding UID; and

means for storing said corresponding UIDs of said one or more terms into a file associated with said multilingual email message.

23. A system for displaying a multilingual email message comprising:

means for sending an email comprising a link to a file associated with a multilingual email message comprising a plurality of stored UIDs associated with one or more terms selected from a plurality of translated terms,

means for selecting a display language in which to view said multilingual email message, and

means for displaying said multilingual email message in the selected display language.

29. A computer program product embodied on a computer readable medium including program logic, the program logic operative to enable a computer to generate a multilingual email message comprising:

first selection program logic operative to enable the computer to select an initial language in which to generate a multilingual email message;

second selection program logic operative to enable the computer to select one or more terms from a plurality of translated terms each associated with a corresponding UID;

program logic operative to enable the computer to generate a multilingual email message with said translated terms in the message body; and

program logic operative to enable the computer to store the corresponding UIDs of the one or more translated terms into a file associated with said multilingual email message.