LOCALIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR DYNAMIC TEXT

• US 20130144596A1
• Filed: 01/11/2012
• Published: 06/06/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zynga Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Zynga Incorporated
• Inventors: Lui, Bigi, Brinton, Danica Milosevic, Matsumura, Eric, Vu, John Huan
• Granted Patent: US 9,244,902 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/284 Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/47 Machine-assisted translation, e.g. using translation memory
• 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

An apparatus and method providing a localization framework capable of localizing dynamic text is disclosed herein. The localization framework is configured to automatically identify and prioritize certain text contained within an application code base to be translated. Such text is pre-processed prior to translation to facilitate accurate and complete translation in a target language.

Claims

1. A method for localization of an application, the method comprising:

automatically identifying, using a processor, at least one textual information within the application to be translated into a second language from a first language, the automatically identifying being triggered by a user interacting with the application causing the textual information to be presented to the user;

selectively substituting at least one token included in the textual information with at least one word in accordance with the user interaction with the application;

transmitting the textual information with the selectively substituted token for translation to the second language;

receiving a translated textual information in the second language; and

localizing the textual information with the translated textual information for presenting a localized textual information to the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the textual information comprises a dynamic text string.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the localized textual information comprises the translated textual information with all tokens substituted with words in the second language.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the localizing the textual information occurs prior to receiving the translated textual information, and the localized textual information comprises the textual information with all tokens substituted with words in the first language provided within the application.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting the localized textual information to the user.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the selectively substituting comprises substituting the at lest one token in accordance with a language structure of the second language.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating more than one variation of the textual information with the selectively substituted token, wherein each variation comprises at least one token different from another variation.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the automatically identifying comprises automatically prioritizing currently used textual information for translation.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising:

capturing a text string within an application based on a user interaction with the application;

performing pre-translation processing of the captured text string prior to translation;

transmitting the captured text string for translation after pre-translation processing, the text string being in a first language and a translated text string is in a second language; and

localizing the text string.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the capturing of the text string comprises the user interaction with the application causing presentation of text corresponding to the text string to a user.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the capturing of the text string comprises checking availability of the translated text string.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the performing of pre-translation processing comprises substituting at least one token included in the text string with at least one word.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the performing of pre-translation processing comprises generating more than one version of the text string, each version of the text string substituted with a different word for at least one token included in text string.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the performing of pre-translation processing comprises performing a different pre-translation processing for each of the second language and a third language in which the text string is to be translated.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the localizing the text string comprises substituting the text string with the translated text string and all tokens included in the text string with at least one word in the second language.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 9, further comprising presenting a localized text string to the user.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the text string comprises a dynamic text string.

18. A system for localization of an application, comprising:

a storage device having at least one translated first text in a second language corresponding to a first text in a first language included in the application; and

a computing device in communication with the storage device and configured to execute instructions encoded in a first module, a second module, and a third module, the first module configured to capture, at application runtime, a second text within the application to be translated from the first language to the second language based on user interaction with the application, the second module configured to perform pre-translation processing of the second text prior to translation, and the third module configured to localize the second text.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the computing device is configured to transmit the second text for translation after pre-translation processing.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the first text is captured by the first module based on another user interaction with the application for translation into the translated first text.

21. The system of claim 18, wherein the user interaction with the application comprises user activity causing display of the second text to the user.

22. The system of claim 18, wherein the second text comprises a dynamic text string.

23. The system of claim 18, wherein the second module of the computing device is configured to substitute at least one placeholder included in the second text with at least one word prior to translation.

24. The system of claim 18, wherein the computing device is configured to receive a translated second text corresponding to the second text and to store the translated second text in the storage device.

25. The system of claim 24, wherein the third module of the computing device is configured to localize the second text using the translated second text from the storage device.

26. The system of claim 18, wherein the third module of the computing device is configured to localize the second text using the second text with at least one placeholder included in the second text substituted with a word in a first language when a translation of the second text is unavailable in the storage device.