Progressive display rendering of processed text

• US 8,103,498 B2
• Filed: 10/01/2007
• Issued: 01/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Bode, Andreas, Maurice, Sandor Loren
• Primary Examiner(s): SKED, MATTHEW J
• Application Number:
  US11/865,284
• Publication Number:
  US 20090043563A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,576 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 704/3
• 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 method and a system are provided for processing displayed text and progressively displaying results of processing the displayed text. In some embodiments, displayed text may be submitted as processing requests to process portions of the displayed text. The processing may include translation of the portions of the displayed text from a source natural language to a target natural language, grammar checking of the portions of the displayed text, or other types of processing. Each of the processing requests may include one or more complete sentences, or other units of text. Further, each of the processing requests may be submitted independently of receiving a processing response corresponding to an immediately preceding submitted processing request. Changed or annotated text included in processing responses may replace corresponding displayed text.

Claims

1. A method for performing progressive display rendering of machine-translated text, the method comprising:

submitting a plurality of requests for translating displayed text of a displayed document from a source language to a target language, each of the plurality of requests including at least one sentence of text, and ones of the plurality of requests being submitted independently of receiving a corresponding response to an immediately preceding submitted request;

receiving translated responses including text in the target language, each of the translated responses corresponding to a respective one of the submitted plurality of requests;

determining whether text corresponding to respective received ones of the translated responses is currently being displayed; and

replacing only portions of the displayed text in the source language with corresponding ones of the text included in the respective received ones of the translated responses as the respective ones of the translated responses are received, when the determining determines that the text corresponding to the respective received ones of the translated responses is currently being displayed, wherein

the method is implemented by a processing device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a formatting of the displayed document remains unchanged.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein any graphical images included in the displayed document remain unchanged.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein no more than a predetermined number of the requests are outstanding at any one time.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein an order of submitting of the requests includes submission of first respective ones of the at least one sentence of text from a top of the displayed document before submission of second respective ones of the at least one sentence of text from a bottom of the displayed document.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the requests for translating the displayed text include approximately a same amount of text.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising optimizing an amount of text included in the submitted requests.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprises:

optimizing an amount of text included in the submitted requests, wherein

the optimizing of the amount of text included in the submitted requests further comprises mixing short sentences with long sentences.

9. A processing device comprising:

at least one processor; and

a memory connected to the at least one processor, the memory comprising;

instructions for submitting a plurality of requests for processing displayed text, ones of the plurality of submitted requests being submitted independently of receiving a corresponding processing response to an immediately preceding submitted processing request;

instructions for receiving respective processing responses including changed or annotated text corresponding to respective ones of the submitted plurality of requests;

instructions for determining whether text corresponding to the respective received processing responses is currently being displayed;

instructions for replacing only portions of the displayed text corresponding to the changed or annotated text in respective ones of the received processing responses as each of the respective ones of the received processing responses is received, when the determining determines that the text corresponding to the respective ones of the received processing responses is currently being displayed; and

instructions for discarding the respective ones of the received processing responses as the respective ones of the received processing responses when the determining fails to determine that the text corresponding to the respective ones of the received processing responses is currently being displayed.

10. The processing device of claim 9, wherein the memory further comprises:

instructions for scanning and marking data corresponding to the displayed text to be processed, and

instructions for determining units of the displayed text, each of the submitted plurality of requests including a respective one of the units.

11. The processing device of claim 9, wherein:

the processing of the displayed text includes performing grammar checking of the displayed text.

12. The processing device of claim 9, wherein:

the displayed text includes text in a source natural language,

the processing of the displayed text includes machine-translation of the displayed text from the source natural language to a target natural language, and

the instructions for replacing only the portions of the displayed text corresponding to the received changed or annotated text as the processing responses are received comprise;

instructions for replacing the displayed text in the source natural language with text in the target natural language included in corresponding received processing responses as the corresponding processing responses are received.

13. The processing device of claim 9, wherein:

the displayed text includes text in a source natural language,

the processing of the displayed text includes machine-translation of the displayed text from the source natural language to a target natural language, and

each of the plurality of requests for processing displayed text includes one or more complete sentences.

14. The processing device of claim 9, wherein the memory further comprises:

instructions for permitting no more than a predetermined number of the submitted plurality of requests to be outstanding.

15. A method for performing progressive display rendering of processed text, the method comprising:

submitting a plurality of processing requests with respect to displayed text from a portion of a document displayed on a display screen of a processing device, each of the plurality of requests including a respective unit of the displayed text, ones of the plurality of submitted processing requests being submitted independently of receiving a corresponding processing response to an immediately preceding submitted processing request;

receiving processing responses including changed or annotated text corresponding to respective ones of the submitted plurality of processing requests; and

determining whether text corresponding to the changed or annotated text included in ones of the received processing responses is currently being displayed;

replacing portions of the displayed text with the received changed or annotated text as the respective processing responses are received, only when the received changed or annotated text corresponds to text currently being displayed; and

discarding the received changed or annotated text only when the received changed or annotated text fails to correspond to the text currently being displayed.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein a format of the portion of the document displayed on the display screen of the processing device remains unchanged.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein:

each of the processing requests is a request for checking a grammar of the respective unit of the displayed text.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein no more than a predetermined number of processing requests are outstanding at any time.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein ones of the plurality of processing requests associated with ones of the displayed text from a top of the display screen are submitted before ones of the plurality of processing requests associated with ones of the displayed text from a bottom of the display screen.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein:

each of the plurality of processing requests includes a request for machine-translation of the respective unit of the displayed text from a source natural language to a target natural language, and

each of the received processing responses includes machine translated text in the target natural language, corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of processing requests.