Dynamic language translation of web site content

• US 9,311,287 B2
• Filed: 07/17/2013
• Issued: 04/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MotionPoint Corporation
• Original Assignee: MotionPoint Corporation
• Inventors: Travieso, Enrique, Alvarez, Eugenio, Whiteman, Charles
• Primary Examiner(s): GORTAYO, DANGELINO N
• Application Number:
  US13/944,356
• Publication Number:
  US 20140019114A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,000 Days
• Field of Search: 707/711, 707/706, 707/708, 707/716, 707/726, 707/760, 707/811, 704/8, 704/277
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• 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 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/263 Language identification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/45 Example-based machine translation; Alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/47 Machine-assisted translation, e.g. using translation memory
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/55 Rule-based translation
• 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: G10L 15/005 Language recognition
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer readable medium for providing translated web content with translated URLs. A request is received content in a second language translated from content in a first language. The content in the first language is obtained from the first Internet source. One or more links are identified from the content in the first language. Each original URL is divided into one or more translatable URL components in the first language. Whether the one or more translatable URL components in each original URL have been previously translated into the second language and stored as translated URL components is determined. If there is at least one translatable URL component previously translated and stored as a corresponding translated URL component, a translated URL in the second language for each original URL is generated. The content in the second language with translated URLs is created.

Claims

1. A method implemented on a computer having at least one processor, storage, and communication platform for updating URLs, comprising the steps of:

accessing from an Internet source, via a publicly available network path, content of a webpage in a first language represented by an original URL;

identifying one or more search engine relevant elements present in the content of the webpage in the first language;

receiving a translation in the second language of at least one of the identified one or more search engine relevant elements;

converting the translation into a URL friendly format to generate a search engine optimized path;

incorporating the search engine optimized path into the original URL to generate an updated URL representing a webpage in the second language corresponding to the webpage in the first language; and

storing the updated URL in association with the original URL to represent the webpage in the second language corresponding to the webpage in the first language.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the translation is via human translation aided by machine translation.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the translation is via machine translation edited by a human translator.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the one or more search engine relevant elements are identified from at least one of:

a title of the content in the first language,

a meta-description associated with the content in the first language,

a tag used to code the content in the first language,

words appearing in the content in the first language, and

a combination thereof.

5. A method implemented on a computer having at least one processor, storage, and communication platform for updating URLs, comprising the steps of:

accessing from an Internet source, via a publicly available network path, content of a webpage in a first language represented by an original URL;

identifying one or more search engine relevant elements present in the content of the webpage in the first language;

receiving a translation in the second language of at least one of the identified one or more search engine relevant elements;

converting the translation into a URL friendly format to generate a search engine optimized path;

incorporating the search engine optimized path into the original URL to generate an updated URL representing a webpage in the second language corresponding to the webpage in the first language;

applying the updated URL to represent the webpage in the second language corresponding to the webpage in the first language to facilitate Internet search, and

storing the updated URL in association with the original URL.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein one or more search engine relevant elements are identified from at least one of:

a title of the content in the first language,

a meta-description associated with the content in the first language,

a tag used to code the content in the first language,

words appearing in the content in the first language, and

a combination thereof.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the step of storing comprises the steps of:

generating an identification to be used to uniquely associate the updated URL with the original URL;

inserting the identification into the updated URL; and

saving the original URL with the identification for future retrieval.