Adding on-the-fly comments to code

• US 9,442,720 B2
• Filed: 02/26/2014
• Issued: 09/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Velusamy, Lakshmanan
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao, Thuy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Rivera, Anibal
• Application Number:
  US14/190,783
• Publication Number:
  US 20150242206A1
• Time in Patent Office: 930 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 8/33 Intelligent editors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/73 Program documentation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/75 Structural analysis for program understanding
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

A system and method of adding on-the-fly comments to source code are described. In some embodiments, audio data comprising a comment for source code in a source code file is received. The comment is stored in association with the source code, and an indication of the comment is caused to be displayed within the source code file to a user on a computing device. In some embodiments, an indication of a location within the source code file with which to associate the comment is received, and the comment can be stored in association with the location within the source code file. The comment can be caused to be displayed at the location within the source code file. In some embodiments, the audio data is converted to a textual representation of the comment. In some embodiments, the comment is translated from an original language to at least one additional language.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving audio data comprising a comment for source code in a source code file;

receiving an indication of a location within the source code file with which to associate the comment;

converting the audio data to a textual representation of the comment;

storing, by a machine having a memory and at least one processor, the audio data and the textual representation of the comment in association with the location within the source code file;

determining a location of a user;

determining a primary language of the user based, at least in part, on the determined location of the user;

causing an indication of the comment to be displayed at the location within the source code file to a user on a computing device, the indication of the comment comprising a selectable link to the textual representation of the comment, the selectable link being configured to cause the textual representation of the comment to be displayed to the user on the computing device in response to a selection of the selectable link; and

causing the comment to be presented, to the user on the computing device, in the determined primary language of the user based on the determination of the primary language.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the location within the source code file comprises a line number.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the selectable link is further configured to cause an audio representation of the comment to be played to the user on the computing device in response to its selection.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising translating the comment from an original language to at least one additional language, wherein storing the comment comprises storing the comment in the original language and in the at least one additional language.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

translating the comment from an original language to an additional language in response to a user instruction; and

presenting the comment in the additional language to the user.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein presenting the comment in the additional language comprises causing a textual representation of the comment in the additional language to be displayed to the user.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein presenting the comment in the additional language comprises causing an audio version of the comment in the additional language to be played to the user.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

editing an original version of the comment in response to an instruction from the user or another user to edit the original version of the comment, thereby forming an edited version of the comment distinct from the original version of the comment; and

storing the edited version of the comment concurrently with the original version of the comment.

9. A system comprising:

at least one processor and executable instructions accessible on a non-transitory computer-readable medium that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising;

receive audio data comprising a comment for source code in a source code file;

receive an indication of a location within the source code file with which to associate the comment;

convert the audio data to a textual representation of the comment;

store the audio data and the textual representation of the comment in association with the location within the source code file;

determine a location of a user;

determine a primary language of the user based, at least in part, on the determined location of the user;

cause an indication of the comment to be displayed at the location within the source code file to a user on a computing device, the indication of the comment comprising a selectable link to the textual representation of the comment, the selectable link being configured to cause the textual representation of the comment to be displayed to the user on the computing device in response to a selection of the selectable link; and

cause the comment to be presented, to the user on the computing device, in the determined primary language of the user based on the determination of the primary language.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the selectable link is further configured to cause an audio representation of the comment to be played to the user on the computing device in response to its selection.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

translate the comment from an original language to at least one additional language; and

store the comment in the original language and in the at least one additional language.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

translate the comment from an original language to an additional language in response to a user instruction; and

present the comment in the additional language to the user.

13. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing a set of instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to perform a set of operations comprising:

receiving audio data comprising a comment for source code in a source code file;

receiving an indication of a location within the source code file with which to associate the comment;

converting the audio data to a textual representation of the comment;

storing the audio data and the textual representation of the comment in association with the location within the source code file;

determining a location of a user;

determining a primary language of the user based, at least in part, on the determined location of the user;

causing an indication of the comment to be displayed at the location within the source code file to a user on a computing device, the indication of the comment comprising a selectable link to the textual representation of the comment, the selectable link being configured to cause the textual representation of the comment to be displayed to the user on the computing device in response to a selection of the selectable link; and

causing the comment to be presented, to the user on the computing device, in the determined primary language of the user based on the determination of the primary language.