Apparatus and method for translating between different role-based vocabularies for multiple users

• US 20040167892A1
• Filed: 02/25/2003
• Published: 08/26/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Sabiers, Mark, Salle, Mathias, Kirshenbaum, Evan
• Application Number:
  US10/372,126
• Publication Number:
  US 20040167892A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/247 Thesauruses; Synonyms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/40 Processing or translation of natural language natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30

Abstract

A method and corresponding apparatus use a translation system and vocabulary models to translate between different role-based vocabularies for different users. The vocabulary models may be associated with different roles, each role having one or more vocabularies. The vocabulary models may be fixed and hard-coded so that the roles and the role-based vocabularies are predefined and cannot be altered. The vocabulary models may also be flexible, allowing new roles and/or role-based vocabularies to be added.

Claims

1. A method for translating between different role-based vocabularies, comprising:

enabling a user to assert a first role associated with a first vocabulary model, wherein the first role includes a first role-based vocabulary;

identifying the first role asserted by the user;

enabling the user to select a second role, wherein the second role is associated with a second vocabulary model and includes a second role-based vocabulary;

enabling the user to construct a query directed to the second role, wherein the query is constructed in the first role-base vocabulary; and

using the first and the second vocabulary models, translating the query into the second role-based vocabulary corresponding to the second role.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second role provides data to the user, further comprising translating the data into the first role-based vocabulary corresponding to the first role asserted by the user.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising displaying the data to the user in the first role-based vocabulary.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising obtaining a stream of data to be translated.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the second role provides system status data to the user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the enabling the user to select step includes enabling the user to select a monitoring system, and wherein the translating step includes translating the query into a standard query used by the monitoring system.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising enabling the user to select an object of interest from the first role-based vocabulary.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

enabling the user to construct a message to be sent to a second user, wherein the second user asserts the second role;

identifying the second role asserted by the second user; and

translating the message into the second role-based vocabulary corresponding to the second role.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising enabling the second user to construct a response to the message in the second role-based vocabulary.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising translating the response into the first role-based vocabulary corresponding to the first role asserted by the user.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising presenting a translated message to the user for confirmation.

12. An apparatus for translating between different role-based vocabularies, comprising:

vocabulary models that are associated with a plurality of roles, wherein a user asserts a first role and constructs a query, and wherein the first role includes a first role-based vocabulary;

a mapping module that identifies the first role asserted by the user and maps the query with the first role-based vocabulary; and

a translation module that translates the query into a second role-based vocabulary corresponding to a second role, wherein the second role provides a response to the query for the user.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the translation module translates the query into a standard query used by a monitoring system, and wherein the monitoring system provides system status data.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the translation module translates the response into the first role-based vocabulary corresponding to the first role asserted by the user.

15. A computer readable medium providing instructions for translating between different role-based vocabularies, the instructions comprising:

enabling a user to assert a first role associated with a first vocabulary model, wherein the first role includes a first role-based vocabulary;

identifying the first role asserted by the user;

enabling the user to select a second role, wherein the second role is associated with a second vocabulary model and includes a second role-based vocabulary;

enabling the user to construct a query directed to the second role, wherein the query is constructed in the first role-base vocabulary; and

using the first and the second vocabulary models, translating the query into the second role-based vocabulary corresponding to the second role.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the second role provides data to the user, further comprising instructions for translating the data into the first role-based vocabulary corresponding to the first role asserted by the user.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the instruction for enabling the user to select include instructions for enabling the user to select a monitoring system, and wherein the instructions for translating include instructions for translating the query into a standard query used by the monitoring system.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 15, further comprising instructions for:

enabling the user to construct a message to be sent to a second user, wherein the second user asserts the second role;

identifying the second role asserted by the second user; and

translating the message into the second role-based vocabulary corresponding to the second role.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 18, further comprising instructions for enabling the second user to construct a response to the message in the second role-based vocabulary.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 19, further comprising instructions for translating the response into the first role-based vocabulary corresponding to the first role asserted by the user.