Translation server, translating method, and program

• US 20030225569A1
• Filed: 05/13/2003
• Published: 12/04/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Shimamura, Kaoru
• Granted Patent: US 7,197,450 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/47 Machine-assisted translation, e.g. using translation memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5682 Policies or rules for updating, deleting or replacing the stored data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A cache processing unit searches a translated sentence cache file of a header matched with a translating request from a translated sentence cache database and transmits translated sentence cache data to a client. If the translated sentence cache file cannot be searched, the translated sentence cache file in which only the header matched with the translating request has been stored is preliminarily registered into the translated sentence cache database and, thereafter, a cache state is set into “during translation”, thereby allowing a translation executing unit to machine-translate original sentence file. After completion of the machine translation, a translation result is transmitted to the client and stored into the translated sentence cache file which has preliminarily been registered, and the cache state is set into “available”.

Claims

1. A translation server for providing a translating function to a client via a network, comprising:

a translation user interface control unit which receives a translating request from a user interface provided for said client and activates a translating process;

an original sentence obtaining unit which accesses an address designated in said translating request and obtains an original sentence file;

a translation executing unit which executes machine translation of said original sentence file by using a translation dictionary designated in said translating request; and

a cache processing unit which searches a translated sentence cache file of a header matched with said translating request from a translated sentence cache database and transmits translated sentence cache data to said client, and if said translated sentence cache file cannot be searched, preliminarily registers the translated sentence cache file in which only the header matched with said translating request has been stored into said translated sentence cache database, thereafter, sets a cache state into “

during translation”

, allows said translation executing unit to translate said original sentence file, transmits a translation result to said client, stores said translation result into said translated sentence cache file which has preliminarily been registered, and sets the cache state into “

available”

.

2. A server according to claim 1, wherein said translation user interface control unit provides a homepage translation picture plane which can input and designate the translating request to a browser of said client on the basis of a homepage translation HTML.

3. A server according to claim 1, wherein when a size of said obtained original sentence file is smaller than a minimum size of a cache target, said cache processing unit does not execute the cache process but allows said translation executing unit to execute the machine translation.

4. A server according to claim 3, wherein said cache target minimum size is a file size in which a time that is necessary for the machine translation exceeds a predetermined time that is necessary for the cache process.

5. A server according to claim 1, wherein

said translation user interface control unit receives a translating request including a URL of the original sentence file, an update date of the original sentence file, a translating direction, and a use dictionary list as said translating request, and

said cache processing unit searches the translated sentence cache file of the header matched with the URL of the original sentence file, the update date of the original sentence file, the translating direction, and the use dictionary list obtained from said translating request from said translated sentence cache database.

6. A server according to claim 1, wherein when another translating request to the same translated sentence cache file is received in the cache state of “

during translation”

after said translated sentence cache files were preliminarily registered, said cache processing unit allows the cache process of said another translating request to be waited until said cache state enters “

available”

.

7. A server according to claim 1, further comprising a dictionary updating unit which updates said translation dictionaries and, when the dictionaries are updated, clears the translated sentence cache files registered in said translated sentence cache database.

8. A translating method of a translation server which provides a translating function to a client via a network, comprising:

a translating request receiving step wherein a translating request from a user interface provided for said client is received and a translating process is activated;

an original sentence obtaining step wherein an address designated in said translating request is accessed and an original sentence file is obtained; and

a cache processing step wherein a translated sentence cache file of a header matched with said translating request is searched from a translated sentence cache database, translated sentence cache data is transmitted to said client, if said translated sentence cache file cannot be searched, the translated sentence cache file in which only the header matched with said translating request has been stored is preliminarily registered into said translated sentence cache database, thereafter, a cache state is set into “

during translation”

, a translation executing unit is allowed to translate said original sentence file, a translation result is transmitted to said client, said translation result is stored into the translated sentence cache file which has preliminarily been registered, and the cache state is set into “

available”

.

9. A method according to claim 8, wherein in said translating request receiving step, a homepage translation picture plane which can input and designate the translating request is provided to a browser of said client on the basis of a homepage translation HTML.

10. A method according to claim 8, wherein in said cache processing step, when a size of said obtained original sentence file is smaller than a minimum size of a cache target, the cache process is not executed but said translation executing unit is allowed to execute machine translation.

11. A method according to claim 10, wherein said cache target minimum size is a file size in which a time that is necessary for the machine translation exceeds a predetermined time that is necessary for the cache process.

12. A method according to claim 8, wherein

in said translating request receiving step, a translating request including a URL of the original sentence file, an update date of the original sentence file, a translating direction, and a use dictionary list is received as said translating request, and

in said cache processing step, the translated sentence cache file of the header matched with the URL of the original sentence file, the update date of the original sentence file, the translating direction, and the use dictionary list obtained from said translating request is searched from said translated sentence cache database.

13. A method according to claim 8, wherein in said cache processing step, when another translating request to the same translated sentence cache file is received in the cache state of “

during translation”

after said translated sentence cache files were preliminarily registered, the cache process of said another translating request is allowed to be waited until said cache state enters “

available”

.

14. A method according to claim 8, further comprising a dictionary updating step wherein translation dictionaries are updated and, when the dictionaries are updated, the translated sentence cache files registered in said translated sentence cache database are cleared.

15. A program which is executed by a translation server which provides a translating function to a client via a network, wherein said program allows a computer to execute:

a translating request receiving step wherein a translating request from a user interface provided for the client is received and a translating process is activated;

an original sentence obtaining step wherein an address designated in said translating request is accessed and an original sentence file is obtained; and

a cache processing step wherein a translated sentence cache file of a header matched with said translating request is searched from a translated sentence cache database, translated sentence cache data is transmitted to said client, if said translated sentence cache file cannot be searched, the translated sentence cache file in which only the header matched with said translating request has been stored is preliminarily registered into said translated sentence cache database, thereafter, a cache state is set into “

during translation”

, a translation executing unit is allowed to translate the original sentence file, a translation result is transmitted to said client, said translation result is stored into said translated sentence cache file which has preliminarily been registered, and the cache state is set into “

available”

.

16. A program according to claim 15, wherein in said translating request receiving step, a homepage translation picture plane which can input and designate the translating request is provided to a browser of said client on the basis of a homepage translation HTML.

17. A program according to claim 15, wherein in said cache processing step, when a size of said obtained original sentence file is smaller than a minimum size of a cache target, the cache process is not executed but said translation executing unit is allowed to execute machine translation.

18. A program according to claim 17, wherein said cache target minimum size is a file size in which a time that is necessary for the machine translation exceeds a predetermined time that is necessary for the cache process.

19. A program according to claim 15, wherein

in said translating request receiving step, a translating request including a URL of the original sentence file, an update date of the original sentence file, a translating direction, and a use dictionary list is received as said translating request, and

in said cache processing step, the translated sentence cache file of the header matched with the URL of the original sentence file, the update date of the original sentence file, the translating direction, and the use dictionary list obtained from said translating request is searched from said translated sentence cache database.

20. A program according to claim 15, wherein in said cache processing step, when another translating request to the same translated sentence cache file is received in the cache state of “

during translation”

after said translated sentence cache files were preliminarily registered, the cache process of said another translating request is allowed to be waited until said cache state enters “

available”

.

21. A program according to claim 15, further comprising a dictionary updating step wherein translation dictionaries are updated and, when the dictionaries are updated, the translated sentence cache files registered in said translated sentence cache database are cleared.