Automated message-translation arrangement
First Claim
1. A messaging method comprising the steps of:
- in response to a message having a translatable portion being stored in a mailbox of a messaging system, automatically sending the translatable portion to a translating facility for translation; and
in response to receiving a translated said translatable portion from the translating facility, automatically storing the translated portion as a part of the message in same said mailbox.
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Abstract
A messaging system (100) is interfaced with a translation facility (101) so as to provide automated message translation for hearing-impaired and vision-impaired individuals. When a message is deposited (300) in a mailbox (112-113), a daemon process (117) checks (302-304) what translation service the mailbox owner is subscribed to, and then checks (306-312) whether any messages in the mailbox have a translatable component. The daemon process removes (316-318) any such message from the mailbox and sends (320-326) the translatable component to the translation facility with a request to perform the subscribed-to translation--such as voice-to-text or text/fax-to-voice. When the translated component is returned (440), the daemon process checks (442) whether the mailbox owner is subscribed to receive only the translated component or also the original untranslated component, and accordingly either appends (446) the translated component to the message or replaces (444-446) the untranslated component with the translated component in the message. The daemon process then marks (448) the message as translated and deposits (450) the marked message back in the recipient'"'"'s mailbox for retrieval by the recipient.
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11 Claims
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1. A messaging method comprising the steps of:
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in response to a message having a translatable portion being stored in a mailbox of a messaging system, automatically sending the translatable portion to a translating facility for translation; and in response to receiving a translated said translatable portion from the translating facility, automatically storing the translated portion as a part of the message in same said mailbox. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9)
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6. A messaging method comprising the steps of:
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in response to a message being deposited in a mailbox of a recipient of the message, automatically determining which translation service of a plurality of available translation services the recipient is subscribed to; in response to the determination, automatically determining whether a message stored in the recipient'"'"'s mailbox has a component translatable via the subscribed-to translation service; in response to determining that a message in the recipient'"'"'s mailbox has a translatable component, automatically removing the message from the recipient'"'"'s mailbox; automatically extracting the translatable component from the removed message; automatically sending the extracted translatable component with a request to perform the subscribed-to translation service to a translation facility; in response to receipt from the translation facility of a translated said translatable component, automatically including the translated component in the removed message; and automatically depositing the removed message with the translated component in the mailbox of the recipient. - View Dependent Claims (7)
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10. A messaging system comprising:
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a mailbox for storing messages; means responsive to storing of a message having a translatable portion in the mailbox, for sending the translatable portion to a translating facility for translation; and means responsive to receipt from the translating facility of a translated said translatable portion, for storing the translated portion as a part of the message in same said mailbox.
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11. An apparatus for use with a mailbox for storing messages, comprising:
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an effector of automatically sending a translatable portion of a message to a translating facility for translation, in response to the message having the translatable portion being stored in the mailbox; and an effector of automatically storing a translated said translatable portion as a part of the message in same said mailbox, in response to receipt of the translated translatable portion from the translating facility.
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