LANGUAGE TRANSLATION USING EMBEDDABLE COMPONENT

• US 20100305940A1
• Filed: 06/01/2009
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Maurice, Sandor L., Dendi, Vikram R.
• Granted Patent: US 9,405,745 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/154 Tree transformation for tree-structured or markup documents, e.g. XSLT, XSL-FO or stylesheets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/42 Data-driven translation
• 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

Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to language translation. In aspects, a reference to a language translation component is embedded or otherwise inserted into a Web page. When the Web page is rendered, code corresponding to the language translation component may be downloaded and executed. Once executed, the translation component may access other content in the Web page and allow a user to request translation of the Web page. Upon receiving an indication that translation is desired, the translation component may send content in the Web page to a translation service and receive translated content. The translation component may then provide this translated content to a user viewing the Web page.

Claims

1. A method implemented at least in part by a computer, the method comprising:

obtaining data corresponding to a Web page;

displaying, on a user interface, a representation of a translation component, the translation component being integrated in the Web page such that the translation component has access to content in the Web page;

receiving, via the user interface, input to the translation component, the input indicating that translation is to be performed on the Web page;

obtaining at least a portion of the Web page via the translation component;

sending the at least a portion of the Web page to a translation service;

receiving a translation of the at least a portion of the Web page from the translation service; and

displaying, under control of the translation component, the translation of the at least a portion of the Web page on the user interface.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

finding code within the data that references the translation component; and

downloading the translation component from a source external to a store from which the data was obtained; and

executing the translation component in a context of the Web page.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein finding code within the data comprises finding a tag that references the source.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving an indication to inject the translation component into the Web page and in response placing code that references to the translation component into the Web page.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining at least a portion of the Web page via the translation component comprises enumerating, via the translation component, one or more objects of a document object model corresponding to the Web page.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying, under control of the translation component, the translation of the at least a portion of the Web page on the user interface comprises replacing the at least a portion of the Web page with the translation.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the translation of the at least a portion of the Web page on the user interface comprises displaying the at least a portion of the Web page on the user interface together with the translation upon receiving an indication of a cursor being on or close to the at least a portion.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining at least a portion of the Web page via the translation component comprises obtaining a first image from the Web page and wherein receiving a translation of the at least a portion of the Web page from the translation service comprises receiving a second image related to the translation.

9. A computer storage medium having computer-executable instructions, which when executed perform actions, comprising:

placing a reference in first data that corresponds to a Web page, the reference indicating code that is external to the first data, the reference usable to locate and download the code, the code structured to execute in context of the Web page, to receive an indication to translate content in the Web page, and in response to receiving the indication to obtain first content from the Web page, to send the first content to a translation service to translate the first content into translated content, and to display the translated content;

receiving a request for the first data from a requester; and

providing the first data to the requester.

10. The computer storage medium of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving a request for the code from the requester; and

sending the code to the requester.

11. The computer storage medium of claim 10, further comprising determining, based on information included in the request, whether to send the code to the requester.

12. The computer storage medium of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving the first content from the requester;

sending second data derived from the first content to a translation service;

receiving translated content corresponding to the first content from the translation service; and

sending third data derived from the translated content to the requester.

13. The computer storage medium of claim 12, further comprising creating the third data by adding tags to the first content, the tags indicating the translated content.

14. The computer storage medium of claim 12, further comprising creating the third data by adding tags to the translated content, the tags indicating the first content.

15. In a computing environment, an apparatus, comprising:

a content retriever operable to obtain data corresponding to a Web page;

a user interface operable to display a representation of a translation component and to receive input that indicates that a translation is to be performed on content of the Web page; and

a code executer operable to execute code corresponding to the translation component, the code, when executed, having access to other portions of the Web page, the translation component operable to send first content from the Web page to a service external to the apparatus and to receive translated content corresponding to the first content from the service, the translation component further operable to display the translated content in the Web page via the user interface.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, further comprising a renderer operable to use the data to create a graphical representation of the Web page to display on the user interface and to find a reference to the code in the data and to obtain the code using the reference, via the content retriever, from a service external to the apparatus.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, further comprising an injector operable to place an identifier into the Web page, the identifier indicating a service from which to obtain the code.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the translation component is further operable to replace the first content with the translated content in conjunction with obtaining the translated content.

19. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the translation component is further operable to indicate that the first content be displayed concurrently with the translated content.

20. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the translation component is further operable, in conjunction with sending the first content to the service, to obtain at least one image that was not indicated by the Web page before translation, the at least one image related to the translated content.