Real-time VoIP communications using n-Way selective language processing

• US 8,279,861 B2
• Filed: 12/08/2009
• Issued: 10/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/08/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chao-Suren, Chi-Chuen, Nsame, Pascal A., Suren, Aydin, Ventrone, Sebastian T., Hall, Ezran D. B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jagannathan, Melanie
• Application Number:
  US12/633,149
• Publication Number:
  US 20110134910A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,029 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 370/356
• 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: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1056 Multi-site
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/70 Media network packetisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/2061 Language aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42391 where the subscribers are hearing-impaired persons, e.g. telephone devices for the deaf
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/56 Arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities video conference systems H04N7/15

Abstract

A computer-implemented method and system of enabling concurrent real-time multi-language communication between multiple participants using a selective broadcast protocol, the method including receiving at a first server a real-time communication from a first participant, the real-time communication being addressed to a second participant constructed in a first spoken language. A preferred spoken language of receipt of real-time communication is identified by the second participant. A determination is made whether the preferred spoken language of receipt is different than that of the first spoken language of the real-time communication. The real-time communication from the first spoken language is translated and delivered to the preferred spoken language of receipt of the second participant to create a translated real-time communication whenever the preferred spoken language is different than the first spoken language and forwarded without translation when the preferred spoken language of the second participant is the same as the preferred spoken language of the first participant.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of enabling real-time communication between multiple participants in a Session Initiation Protocol based on Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP), the method comprising:

receiving, at a sending VOIP server, a real-time communication from a first participant in a first spoken language that initiates a dialog with a second participant, said real-time communication being broadcast to said second participant in said first spoken language;

identifying, by a receiving VOIP server, a second spoken language to be received by said second participant for said real-time communication of said dialog;

determining, by said receiving VOIP server, that said second spoken language is different than that of said first spoken language for said real-time communication of said dialog;

translating, by said receiving VOIP server, said real-time communication of said dialog from said first spoken language to said second spoken language for said second participant to create a translated real-time communication of said dialog; and

delivering, by said receiving VOIP server, said translated real-time communication of said dialog to said second participant in said second spoken language.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

generating voice service requests for communication resources at a synchronization point located between said sending VOIP server and said receiving VOIP server, based on a first participant'"'"'s language profile and a second participant'"'"'s language profile.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

synchronizing, by said sending VOIP server and said receiving VOIP server, on-demand, said real-time communication of said dialog between first participant and said second participant.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

integrating translated text, supplemental translated audio, translated document text and video data having translated audio in said real-time communication of said dialog, based on said first participant'"'"'s language profile and said second participant'"'"'s language profile.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising:

communicating, by said sending VOIP server, a location of voice data without actual transmission of said voice data based on said first participant'"'"'s language profile and said second participant'"'"'s language profile.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

identifying a receiving VOIP server based on Global Positioning System (GPS) location information of said first and second participants in said first participant'"'"'s language profile and said second participant'"'"'s language profile.

7. The method according to claim 1, said processing of said real-time communication of said dialog further comprising:

determining an optimal location of said receiving VOIP server at which to process said real-time communication of said dialog based on said participant-defined profiles.

8. A communication system comprising:

a memory that stores a first participant'"'"'s language profile and a second participant'"'"'s language profile;

at least one sending Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) server; and

at least one receiving VOIP server that;

receives a real-time communication from a first participant in a first spoken language that initiates a dialog with a second participant, said real-time communication being broadcast to said second participant in said first spoken language;

identifies a second spoken language to be received by said second participant for said real-time communication of said dialog;

determines that said second spoken language is different than that of said first spoken language for said real-time communication of said dialog;

translates said real-time communication of said dialog from said first spoken language to said second spoken language for said second participant to create a translated real-time communication of said dialog; and

delivers said translated real-time communication of said dialog to said second participant in said second spoken language.

9. The system according to claim 8, further comprising:

a synchronization point located between said at least one sending VOIP server and said at least one receiving server that generates a voice service request by a voice service request module for available communication resources, based on said first participant'"'"'s language profile and said second participant'"'"'s language profile.

10. The system according to claim 8, said receiving VOIP server further integrating, by a media integrator, information containing text, voice, document and video data based on said first participant'"'"'s language profile and said second participant'"'"'s language profile.