Dynamic language translation of web site content

• US 9,864,809 B2
• Filed: 07/13/2011
• Issued: 01/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MotionPoint Corporation
• Original Assignee: MotionPoint Corporation
• Inventors: Travieso, Enrique, Alvarez, Eugenio, Whiteman, Charles, Rubenstein, Adam, Fleming, William
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): VAUGHN, GREGORY J
• Application Number:
  US13/182,080
• Publication Number:
  US 20120017146A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,372 Days
• Field of Search: 715200, 715205, 715234, 715255, 715264, 715265
• 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 facilitating selection of a preferred language associated with a website. In one example, information including information relating to a user is first received via the communication platform. The received information is then automatically analyzed to estimate a preferred language in which the user likely uses to view content from the website. A selector is displayed with an available selection of a language that most closely matches the estimated preferred language to allow the user to specify the user'"'"'s preferred language with respect to the website. The user'"'"'s preferred language is stored, and the user is redirected to the website in the user'"'"'s preferred language.

Claims

1. A method implemented on a computer having at least one processor, storage, and communication platform for facilitating selection of a preferred language associated with a website, comprising the steps of:

receiving, via the communication platform, information relating to a referrer URL of a referrer website from which a user requests and accesses an original website in a first language, wherein the referrer URL indicates a webpage containing a link the user clicked on to access the original website;

analyzing automatically the received information to estimate a preferred language that the user likely prefers to view content from the original website, the preferred language being estimated based on a keyword included in the referrer URL;

displaying a selector, with one or more selectable languages determined based on the estimated preferred language, that allows the user to select a second language from the one or more selectable languages; and

in response to the user'"'"'s selection, directly redirecting the user to a translated website in the second language that corresponds to the original website.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information further includes at least one of a language a user agent prefers, a default language of the user agent, the user'"'"'s IP address, the user'"'"'s geo-location information, and a cookie associated with the user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the selector is displayed only when the preferred language is different from the first language.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the preferred language is estimated based on a number of other users that use the referrer URL in a predetermined amount of time.

5. A method implemented on a computer having at least one processor, storage, and communication platform for facilitating selection of a preferred language associated with a website, comprising the steps of:

receiving, via the communication platform, information relating to a referrer URL of a referrer website from which a user requests and accesses an original website in a first language, wherein the referrer URL indicates a webpage containing a link the user clicked on to access the original website;

analyzing the received information to determine a preferred language that the user likely prefers to view content from the original website, the preferred language being determined based on a keyword included in the referrer URL;

displaying a selector, with one or more selectable languages determined based on the preferred language that allows the user to select a second language from the one or more selectable languages;

storing the user'"'"'s selected second language in association with the user;

receiving, via the communication platform, a request from the user to visit the original website; and

automatically redirecting the user to a translated website in the second language that corresponds to the original website.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the information is received via an HTTP request.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the information further includes at least one of:

the user agent “

Accept-language”

header,

the user agent language,

the user'"'"'s IP address,

the user'"'"'s geo-location information, and

a cookie.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the analysis to determine the preferred language is additionally based on a predefined set of information including at least one of:

one or more domain names,

at least one language,

one or more countries and their corresponding currencies,

a set of referrer domains associated with the preferred language,

a set of referrer top level domains associated with the preferred language,

a set of referrer subdomains associated with the preferred language,

one or more sets of referrer parameters associated with the preferred language,

a set of geographical areas associated with the preferred language, and

a set of affinity languages associated with the preferred language.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the selector is displayed only when the preferred language is different from the first language.

10. A non-transitory machine-readable medium having information recorded thereon for facilitating selection of a preferred language associated with a website, wherein the information, when read by the machine, causes the machine to perform the following:

receiving information relating to a referrer URL of a referrer website from which a user requests and accesses an original website in a first language;

analyzing automatically the received information to estimate a preferred language that the user likely prefers to view content from the original website, the preferred language being estimated based on a keyword included in the referrer URL;

displaying a selector, with one or more selectable languages determined based on the estimated preferred language, that allows the user to select a second language from the one or more selectable languages; and

in response to the user'"'"'s selection, directly redirecting the user to a translated website in the second language that corresponds to the original website.