MULTILINGUAL RUNTIME RENDERING OF METADATA

• US 20110307243A1
• Filed: 06/10/2010
• Published: 12/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Miller, Patrick, Kogan, Daniel, McMynn, Graham
• Application Number:
  US12/797,962
• Publication Number:
  US 20110307243A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/157 using dictionaries or tables
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/55 Rule-based translation

Abstract

Translated versions of metadata are provided to a user at runtime based on a working language selection. Translated versions of metadata in secondary languages are associated with an original version in a primary language as properties instead of being separate items within an infrastructure hierarchy. The property may be selected from a look-up field at runtime based on user selection of automatic determination of a desired working language. If a translation of a particular item in the working language does not exist, the default language (primary language) version is used instead.

Claims

1. A method executed at least in part in a computing device for runtime rendering of multilingual data based on taxonomical hierarchies, the method comprising:

receiving data in a default language to be rendered, wherein the data is organized in an underlying taxonomical hierarchy;

determining at least one working language to be used in rendering the data;

determining whether a working language translation of the data is included in a look-up table; and

if the working language translation is included in the look-up table, retrieving the working language translation and rendering the data in the working language translation;

else rendering the data in the default language.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the underlying taxonomical hierarchy includes a plurality of terms in the default language represented by corresponding plurality of nodes and available translations of each term associated with a corresponding node for the same term as a property of the node.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the data includes user content with each term including one of:

a character string, a word, a group of words.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the look-up table includes context aware look-up fields for individual terms within the data.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the look-up table includes, for each supported language, a column representing names of terms and a column representing paths of the terms within the taxonomical hierarchy.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

adding a new entry to the look-up table for a first time rendering of a term;

copying default language and translated versions of the term into the look-up table from the underlying taxonomical hierarchy; and

at runtime providing a combination of a name of the term, a path of the term within the hierarchy, and a current display locale to a rendering application.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

updating the look-up table in response to a change in the underlying taxonomical hierarchy representing the data.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein updating the look-up table includes at least one from a set of:

updating path information for nodes of the hierarchy, modifying translations, adding new columns corresponding to newly added translation languages, and removing columns corresponding to deleted translation languages.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the working language includes at least one from a set of:

receiving a user indication, determining based on user credentials, determining based on automatic detection of user locale, and determining based on user language preference for another application.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is rendered as one of:

a document, a web page, and a selectable tree view through a client application.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein a plurality of terms in a translated language are mapped to a term in the default language.

12. A system for runtime rendering of multilingual data based on taxonomical hierarchies, the system comprising:

a first server configured to execute an application rendering multilingual versions of user data, wherein the application is configured to;

receive the user data in a default language to be rendered, wherein the data is organized in an underlying taxonomical hierarchy of a plurality of terms in the default language represented by corresponding plurality of nodes and available translations of each term associated with a corresponding node for the same term as a property of the node;

determine at least one working language to be used in rendering the data;

determine whether a working language translation of the data is included in a look-up table of context aware look-up fields for individual terms within the data; and

if the working language translation is included in the look-up table, retrieve the working language translation from the look-up table and render the data in the working language translation;

else

render the data in the default language.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the application is further configured to:

create a row in the look-up table for a first time rendering of a term;

copy default language and translated versions of the term into the look-up table from the underlying taxonomical hierarchy; and

at runtime provide a combination of a name of the term, a path of the term within the hierarchy, and a current display locale to a rendering module of the application.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the first server further executes a backup job module configured to:

update path information in the look-up table for nodes of the hierarchy;

modify translations in the look-up table;

add new columns corresponding to newly added translation languages in the look-up table; and

remove columns corresponding to deleted translation languages in the look-up table.

15. The system of claim 12, further comprising:

a second server managing the taxonomical hierarchy;

a first data store accessible to the first server for storing the look-up table and the user data; and

a second data store accessible to the second server for storing the taxonomical hierarchy.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the first data store is a de-normalized cache.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the translations include at least one from a set of:

a national language, a dialect, and a cultural language.

18. A computer-readable storage medium with instructions stored thereon for runtime rendering of multilingual data based on taxonomical hierarchies, the instructions comprising:

receiving user data in a default language to be rendered from an underlying taxonomical hierarchy maintaining a plurality of terms in the default language represented by corresponding plurality of nodes and available translations of each term associated with a corresponding node for the same term as a property of the node;

determining at least one working language to be used in rendering the user data;

determining whether a working language translation of the user data is included in a look-up table that includes, for each supported language, a column representing names of terms and a column representing paths of the terms within the taxonomical hierarchy; and

if the working language translation is included in the look-up table, retrieving the working language translation from the look-up table and rendering the user data in the working language translation;

else

rendering the user data in the default language.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein rendering the user data includes providing a combination of a name of the term, a path of the term within the hierarchy, and a current display locale to a rendering application at runtime.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the instructions further comprise:

replacing the default language with one of the supported languages; and

updating the look-up table by replacing corresponding columns.