REMOTELY UPDATED TOOLBAR LANGUAGE TRANSLATION SERVICE

• US 20140052702A1
• Filed: 12/13/2010
• Published: 02/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Fierro, Alex, Shlyapnikov, Aleksey Nikolayevich, Vayvod, Anton Viktorovich, Gozman, Dmitry
• Granted Patent: US 9,405,791 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/695
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2379 Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing
• 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: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/71 Version control security arrangements therefor G06F21/57; Configuration management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation

Abstract

A translation service provided by a browser toolbar may be automatically updated. In one implementation, a device may obtain a version identifier corresponding to a first configuration file, stored locally by the device, that includes configuration options relating to a language translation service provided by a browser toolbar implemented by the device. The device may request a version identifier corresponding to a second configuration file, stored at an update server and determine whether the second configuration file is different than the first configuration file. The device may download the second configuration file when the second configuration file is different than the first configuration file may update operation of the language translation service based on the obtained options.

Claims

1. A computing device implemented method comprising:

obtaining, by the device, a version identifier corresponding to a first configuration file, stored locally by the device, that includes configuration options relating to a language translation service provided by a browser toolbar implemented by the device;

requesting, by the device, and without intervention by a user of the device, a version identifier corresponding to a second configuration file, stored at an update server;

determining, by the device and based on the version identifiers corresponding to the first and second configuration files, whether the second configuration file is different than the first configuration file;

downloading, by the device, the second configuration file, from the update server, when the second configuration file is different than the first configuration file;

parsing, by the device, the second configuration file to obtain updated configuration options relating to the language translation service provided by the browser toolbar; and

updating, by the device, operation of the language translation service based on the obtained options.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

overwriting, when the second configuration file is downloaded, the first configuration file with the second configuration file.

3. The method of claim 1, where the parsing and updating are performed when the browser toolbar is initially started.

4. The method of claim 1, where the version identifiers for the first and second configuration files include a numeric value or a date value.

5. The method of claim 1, where the first and second configuration files include text formatted files.

6. The method of claim 5, where the first and second configuration files implement the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) standard.

7. The method of claim 1, where the configuration options include options relating to two or more of languages available for translation, resources that are to be used for translation requests, or a format for the translation requests.

8. The method of claim 1, where the version identifier obtained for the first configuration file is included within the first configuration file.

9. The method of claim 1, where the language translation service is provided by the browser toolbar based on requests to remote and local translation resources.

10. A device comprising:

a translation component, controlled via a graphical element in a browser toolbar, to perform language translation of documents; and

a toolbar update component, implemented as part of the browser toolbar, to;

request, via a network, a version identifier corresponding to a latest version of a configuration file, where the configuration file defines options relating to the operation of the translation component,

receive, in response to the request, the version identifier of the configuration file,

determine, based on the received version identifier and based on a version identifier of a configuration file currently used by the translation component, whether the configuration file currently used by the translation component should be updated, and

overwrite, based on a result of the determination, the configuration file currently used by the translation component with the latest version of the configuration file.

11. The device of claim 10, further comprising:

a local dictionary to store translation resources used by the translation component when performing the language translation of the documents.

12. The device of claim 11, where the documents include documents defining web pages.

13. The device of claim 10, where the version identifiers, for the latest version of the configuration file and for the configuration file currently used by the translation component, include a numeric value or a date value.

14. The device of claim 10, where the latest version of the configuration file and the configuration file currently used by the translation component include text formatted files.

15. The device of claim 14, where the latest version of the configuration file and the configuration file currently used by the translation component implement the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) standard.

16. The device of claim 10, where the options relating to the operation of the translation component include options relating to two or more of languages available for translation, resources that are to be used for translation requests, or a format for the translation requests.

17. The device of claim 10, where the version identifier of the configuration file currently used by the translation component is included within the configuration file currently used by the translation component.

18. The device of claim 10, where the toolbar update component requests the version identifier without user intervention.

19. A computer-readable medium containing instructions executable by at least one processor, the computer-readable medium comprising:

instructions to obtain a version identifier corresponding to a first configuration file, stored locally, that includes configuration options relating to a language translation service provided by a browser toolbar;

instructions to request a version identifier corresponding to a second configuration file, stored at an update server;

instructions to determine, based on the version numbers corresponding to the first and second configuration files, whether the second configuration file is different than the first configuration file;

instructions to download, the second configuration file, from the update server, when the second configuration file is different than the first configuration file;

instructions to parse the second configuration file to obtain updated configuration options relating to the language translation service provided by the browser toolbar; and

instructions to update operation of the language translation service based on the obtained options.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 19, where the first and second configuration files include text formatted files.

21. The computer-readable medium of claim 20, where the first and second configuration files implement the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) standard.

22. The computer-readable medium of claim 19, where the configuration options include options relating to two or more of languages available for translation, resources that are to be used for translation requests, or a format for the translation requests.

23. The computer-readable medium of claim 19, where the language translation service is provided by the browser toolbar based on requests to remote and local translation resources.

24. The computer-readable medium of claim 19, where the instructions to obtain the version identifier are performed in response to initialization of the browser toolbar.