Identification of in-context resources that are not fully localized

• US 9,195,653 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2011
• Issued: 11/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Yin, Jun, Powalowski, Piotr, Chen, Peter Yung Sen
• Primary Examiner(s): GUERRA-ERAZO, EDGAR X
• Application Number:
  US13/279,666
• Publication Number:
  US 20150154159A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,492 Days
• Field of Search: 704/1, 704/5, 704/8, 704/9
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• 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 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation

Abstract

Applications can be localized by localization experts to allow them to be used by a broader customer base. The localization can be done given interface context to produce more applicable results. A localization expert may determine that certain content within the interface context should be localized, however is not localizable by the expert. The localization expert may indicate that the content is localizable and the developer may receive the indication and provide the localization expert with updated interface context allowing localization of the previously un-localizable content.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

providing, from a computer having one or more processors, a localization interface for localizing an application, the localization interface including first context information for an interface of the application having a first editable portion and one or more non-editable portions of the application, wherein at least one of the one or more non-editable portions is non-text based;

receiving, at the computer and via the localization interface, a first localization edit for the first editable portion of the first context information;

receiving, at the computer and via the localization interface, an indicator message that indicates a selection of a particular non-editable portion of the one or more non-editable portions, the selection indicating that the particular non-editable portion is localizable;

providing, from the computer and in response to the indicator message, second context information for the interface of the application in the localization interface, the second context information having a second editable portion corresponding to the particular non-editable portion;

receiving, at the computer and via the localization interface, a second localization edit for the second editable portion of the second context information; and

compiling, at the computer, a localized version of the application based on the first and second localization edits.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the indicator message includes a priority ranking indicative of an importance of localizing the particular non-editable portion.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the priority ranking is one of a high priority, a medium priority, and a low priority.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first and second localization edits includes a modification of character, font, font style, text effect, spacing, or color corresponding to the second editable portion.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first and second localization edits includes a modification of the size, color, scaling ratio, shade, brightness, contrast, content, shadow, artistic effect, reflection settings, or bevel.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the particular non-editable portion comprises an image.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the particular non-editable portion is non-text based.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the indicator message includes a localization comment corresponding to the particular non-editable portion, the localization comment comprising an explanation of the indication that the particular non-editable portion is localizable.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first context information is a snapshot based on the application.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the indicator message includes a highlighted version of the snapshot based on the application.

11. A computing system, comprising:

one or more processors; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

providing a localization interface for localizing an application, the localization interface including first context information for an interface of the application having a first editable portion and one or more non-editable portions of the application, wherein at least one of the one or more non-editable portions is non-text based;

receiving, via the localization interface, a first localization edit for the first editable portion of the first context information;

receiving, via the localization interface, an indicator message that indicates a selection of a particular non-editable portion of the one or more noneditable portions, the selection indicating that the particular non-editable portion is localizable;

providing, in response to the indicator message, second context information for the interface of the application in the localization interface, the second context information having a second editable portion corresponding to the particular non-editable portion;

receiving, via the localization interface, a second localization edit for the second editable portion of the second context information; and

compiling a localized version of the application based on the first and second localization edits.

12. The computing system of claim 11, wherein the indicator message includes a priority ranking indicative of an importance of localizing the particular noneditable portion.

13. The computing system of claim 12, wherein the priority ranking is one of a high priority, a medium priority, and a low priority.

14. The computing system of claim 11, wherein at least one of the first and second localization edits includes a modification of character, font, font style, text effect, spacing, or color corresponding to the second editable portion.

15. The computing system of claim 11, wherein at least one of the first and second localization edits includes a modification of the size, color, scaling ratio, shade, brightness, contrast, content, shadow, artistic effect, reflection settings, or bevel.

16. The computing system of claim 11, wherein the particular non-editable portion comprises an image.

17. The computing system of claim 11, wherein the particular non-editable portion is non-text based.

18. The computing system of claim 11, wherein the indicator message includes a localization comment corresponding to the particular non-editable portion, the localization comment comprising an explanation of the indication that the particular noneditable portion is localizable.

19. The computing system of claim 11, wherein the first context information is a snapshot based on the application.

20. The computing system of claim 19, wherein the indicator message includes a highlighted version of the snapshot based on the application.