SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING IN A MULTILINGUAL NETWORK

• US 20080294455A1
• Filed: 05/23/2007
• Published: 11/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Bharara, Aavishkar
• Application Number:
  US11/752,524
• Publication Number:
  US 20080294455A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/263 Language identification
• 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: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A method of communicating in a multilingual network comprises receiving a request from a user for a medical data, obtaining the medical data from a server unit, wherein the medical data is stored in a first language, identifying a second language based on a predetermined condition and converting the medical data from the first language to the second language.

Claims

1. A method of communicating in a multilingual network, the method comprising:

receiving a request from a user for a medical data;

obtaining the medical data from a server unit, wherein the medical data is stored in a first language;

identifying a second language based on a predetermined condition; and

converting the medical data from the first language to the second language.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined condition comprises at least one of a location of a user and a user input.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second language comprises a predetermined language.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining the medical data comprises:

requesting the server unit to provide the medical data; and

receiving the medical data in the first language.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the second language comprises:

requesting the user for a selection of the second language; and

receiving the selection for the second language.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the medical data in the second language on a client unit.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising receiving a second medical data from the client unit after displaying the medical data on the client unit, and converting the second medical data from the second language to the first language.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the medical data is stored in one of an audio format, a text format, a waveform format and a frequency format.

9. A system for communicating in a multilingual network, the system comprising:

a client unit configured for requesting a medical data;

a server unit configured for storing the medical data; and

a multilingual agent coupled to the client unit and the server unit, the multilingual agent configured for converting the medical data from a first language to a second language.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the first language is a Unicode language.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the first language is a predetermined language.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the medical data is stored in one of an audio format, a text format, a waveform format and a frequency format.

13. A computer program product stored in a computer readable media for operating in a multilingual network, the computer program product comprising:

a routine for obtaining a user access to a client unit by a user via a user interface; and

a routine for converting the user interface from a first language to a second language.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, further comprising:

a routine for checking for authorization; and

a routine for authenticating the user access upon finding authorization.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, further comprising a routine for storing a predetermined key corresponding to the user.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the routine for checking for authorization comprises:

a routine for requesting the user for an authorization key;

a routine for comparing the authorization key with the predetermined key; and

a routine for generating an authorization upon matching the authorization key with the predetermined key.

17. The computer program product of claim 13, further comprising:

a routine for receiving a request from the user for a medical data;

a routine for obtaining the medical data from a server unit, the medical data being stored in a first language;

a routine for identifying a second language based on a predetermined condition; and

a routine for converting the medical data from the first language to the second language.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the routine for identifying the second language comprises:

a routine for requesting the user for a selection of the second language; and

a routine for receiving the selection for the second language.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, further comprising a routine for displaying the medical data in the second language on the client unit.

20. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the predetermined condition comprises at least one of a location of a user and a user input.

21. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the second language comprises a predetermined language.

22. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the routine for obtaining the medical data comprises:

a routine for requesting the server unit to provide the medical data; and

a routine for receiving the medical data in the first language.

23. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the medical data is stored in one of an audio format, a text format, a waveform format and a frequency format.

24. A multilingual agent for a multilingual medical network, comprising:

a medical data analyzer for receiving a medical data in a first language from a server unit and for breaking the medical data into a plurality of pieces;

a language identifier for identifying the first language for the medical data; and

a language conversion engine for converting each piece of the medical data from the first language to a second language and for providing the medical data in the second language to a client unit.