WEB TRANSLATION PROVIDER

• US 20110231181A1
• Filed: 05/26/2011
• Published: 09/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zhigu Holdings Limited
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Wada, Atsushi, Jinnai, Yusuke, Furuuchi, Yuki, Honma, Shunichi
• Granted Patent: US 8,315,850 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/7
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• 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

A web translation server discovers a document address for a document. The document is accessed and parsed for text data in a first language. The parsed text data is translated into text data in a second language and stored in a database. A client accesses the document and sends a request including the document address to the web translation server. The translated text data in the second language is retrieved from the database based on the document address and sent to the client. The client renders the translated text data in the second language.

Claims

1. A method for creating a document translation database by a computing device, comprising:

determining, by the computing device, a document address for a document;

accessing, by the computing device, the document based on the document address;

parsing, by the computing device, the accessed document for text data wherein the text data is in a first language;

translating, by the computing device, the parsed text data into translated text data in a second language, said second language being different than the first language; and

storing, by the computing device, the translated text data in the second language in the document translation database referenced to the document address wherein a client requests the translated text data in the second language based on document address.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the document includes one or more of the following:

a web page, a word processing document, a spreadsheet document, a slide show presentation document, an email message and a text document.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a web crawler is used to determine the document address for the document.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein further comprising:

dividing, by the computing device, the text data into a plurality of paragraphs, each paragraph including text data in the first language; and

assigning, by the computing device, a paragraph ID to each of the plurality of paragraphs;

translating, by the computing device, each of the plurality of paragraphs in the first language to the plurality of paragraphs in the second language;

for each of the plurality of paragraphs, storing, by the computing device, the translated text data in the second language associated with the paragraph ID in the document translation database wherein a client requests the translated text data in the second language based on the document address and the paragraph ID.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the parsed text data is translated into additional text data in a third language and the additional text data in the third language is stored in the database.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request from a client including the document address;

retrieving the translated text data in the second language from the database based on the document address included in the request;

sending the translated text data in the second language to the client wherein the client renders the translated text data in the second language.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the client renders the translated text data in the second language in a browser executing on the client.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the document address is an URL.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the parsed text data in the first language in the document translation database.

10. A computerized system for creating a document translation database by a computing device, said system comprising:

a computer processor; and

a computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-processor executable instructions, said instructions executable by the computer processor for;

determining a document address for a document;

accessing the document based on the document address;

parsing the accessed document for text data wherein the text data is in a first language;

translating the parsed text data into translated text data in a second language, said second language being different than the first language; and

storing the translated text data in the second language in the document translation database referenced to the document address wherein a client requests the translated text data in the second language based on document address.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the document includes one or more of the following:

a web page, a word processing document, a spreadsheet document, a slide show presentation document, an email message and a text document.

12. The system of claim 10, said instructions further comprising instructions for crawling a network to determine the document address for the document.

13. The system of claim 10, said instructions further comprising instructions for:

dividing the text data into a plurality of paragraphs, each paragraph including text data in the first language; and

assigning a paragraph ID to each of the plurality of paragraphs;

translating each of the plurality of paragraphs in the first language to the plurality of paragraphs in the second language; and

for each of the plurality of paragraphs, storing the translated text data in the second language associated with the paragraph ID in the document translation database wherein a client requests the translated text data in the second language based on the document address and the paragraph ID.

14. The system of claim 10, said instructions further including instructions for:

translating the parsed text data into additional text data in a third language; and

storing the additional text data in the third language in the database.

15. The system of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving a request from a client including the document address;

retrieving the translated text data in the second language from the database based on the document address included in the request;

sending the translated text data in the second language to the client wherein the client renders the translated text data in the second language.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the client renders the translated text data in the second language in a browser executing on the client, and wherein the document address is an URL.

17. The system of claim 10, said instructions further including instructions for storing the parsed text data in the first language in the document translation database.

18. One or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for creating a document translation database by a computing device, said computer-executable instructions comprising:

determining a document address for a document;

accessing the document based on the document address;

parsing the accessed document for text data wherein the text data is in a first language;

translating the parsed text data into translated text data in a second language, said second language being different than the first language; and

storing the translated text data in the second language in the document translation database referenced to the document address wherein a client requests the translated text data in the second language based on document address.

19. The computer-readable storage media of claim 18, said instructions further comprising instructions for:

dividing the text data into a plurality of paragraphs, each paragraph including text data in the first language; and

assigning a paragraph ID to each of the plurality of paragraphs;

translating each of the plurality of paragraphs in the first language to the plurality of paragraphs in the second language; and

for each of the plurality of paragraphs, storing the translated text data in the second language associated with the paragraph ID in the document translation database wherein a client requests the translated text data in the second language based on the document address and the paragraph ID.

20. The computer-readable storage media of claim 18, said instructions further comprising instructions for:

receiving a request from a client including the document address;

retrieving the translated text data in the second language from the database based on the document address included in the request;

sending the translated text data in the second language to the client wherein the client renders the translated text data in the second language, wherein the client renders the translated text data in the second language in a browser executing on the client, and wherein the document address is an URL.