Process official and business documents in several languages for different national institutions

• US 20060136824A1
• Filed: 11/14/2005
• Published: 06/22/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bo-In Lin
• Original Assignee: Bo-In Lin
• Inventors: Lin, Bo-In
• Application Number:
  US11/272,605
• Publication Number:
  US 20060136824A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/264
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/47 Machine-assisted translation, e.g. using translation memory

Abstract

An improved method and document management configuration to allow a person to conveniently control a sentence structure by easily shuffling different phrases in a sentence such that better, faster, and more accurate document translations can be accomplished among a team of patent attorneys/agents in working together to draft a patent applications into at least two different languages. A novel document processing and translating program is provided to first process the document to select few sentences each with a representative sentence structure. A manual input is allowed for each of these sentences a “standard” translation with a correspondent “standard” sentence structure in a second language. These correspondent standard sentence structures in the second language will then be applied as a reference for translation to improve the quality of the translation.

Claims

1. A process for preparing a document for translating into at least a second language comprising:

employing a computer program for comparing a translation document in said second language with said document for generating a translation audit report related to a quality of said translation document.

2. The process of claim 1 wherein:

said step of generating a translation audit report further comprising a step of generating a score representing said quality of said translation document.

3. The process of claim 1 wherein:

said step of generating a translation audit report further comprising a step of applying a set of rules for checking and generating a set of scores according to said set of rules representing said quality of said translation document.

4. The process of claim 1 wherein:

said step of generating a translation audit report further comprising a step of applying a rule of completeness of translation for checking and generating a score of translation completeness representing said quality of said translation document according to said rule of translation completeness.

5. The process of claim 1 wherein:

said step of generating a translation audit report further comprising a step of applying a rule of consistence of translation for checking and generating a score of translation consistence representing said quality of said translation document according to said rule of translation consistence.

6. The process of claim 1 wherein:

said step of generating a translation audit report further comprising a step of applying a rule of readability of translation for checking and generating a score of translation readability representing said quality of said translation document according to said rule of translation readability.

7. A process for preparing a patent application comprising:

organizing a patent preparation and prosecution team comprising patent attorneys/agents for preparing said patent application in at least two national languages; and

preparing and revising said patent application by said team in said national languages whereby said patent application is ready to file in two nations written in said at least two national languages.

8. The process of claim 7 further comprising:

filing said patent application written in said at least two national languages into at least two nations corresponding to said at least two national languages.

9. The process of claim 8 further comprising:

setting up a database for keeping tack of a prosecution status of said patent application in said at least two nations.

10. The process of claim 8 further comprising:

processing and responding to an office action issued by a national authority in examining and issuing a patent for said patent application from each of said at least two nations by said patent preparation and prosecution team.

11. The process of claim 8 further comprising:

interfacing and communicating with an inventor or a patent application assignee about said patent application filed in said at least two nations through said patent preparation and prosecution team.

12. The process of claim 8 further comprising:

setting up network accessible database providing a status of said patent application in said at least two national languages to allow an inventor or a patent application assignee to login and monitor said status of said patent application filed in said at least two nations.

14. The process of claim 12 further wherein:

said step of setting up network accessible database providing a status of said patent application in said at least two national languages further comprising a step of setting up an Internet Website to allow an inventor or a patent application assignee to login for accessing said database for monitoring said status of said patent application filed in said at least two nations.

15. A data file stored in a data handling system comprising:

a patent application having a first section written in a first national language for filing in a first national office designated for processing said patent application and a second section written in a second national language for filing in a second national office designated for processing said patent application.

16. The data file of claim 15 wherein:

at least one of said first and second sections comprising a translation of a different section.

17. The data file of claim 16 wherein:

said translation is linked to a translation database having a plurality of selectable sentence-structural arrangements available for a manual selection.

18. The data file of claim 16 wherein:

said data file is stored in said data handling system available for access by a team of patent attorneys is linked to a translation database having a plurality of selectable sentence-structural arrangements available for a manual selection.