Cloud-based localization platform

• US 9,990,191 B2
• Filed: 02/13/2015
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Zhang, Lei, Miles, Michael James, Zhang, Sheng, Yoon, Doo Suk, Yang, Xu, Zhang, Wei
• Primary Examiner(s): Chowdhury, Ziaul A
• Application Number:
  US14/621,958
• Publication Number:
  US 20150154018A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,208 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that generate notifications that are delivered to translators who provide updates or translations that are included in localization resources for software applications are provided. Resources are stored on a computing device in a first database or a second database. The second database stores the content that is selected for modification or translation. The languages may be selected by one or more application developers or may be based on a geographic region associated with the content or the language currently associated with the content. One or more translators are identified based on matches to translator profiles included in the second database. The matching translators receive notifications, which inform the translator that updates or translations are requested. In turn, the translators may access the second database and provide the updates or translations.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method in a computer network for providing translation of software applications, the method comprising:

storing in a first buffer of a first database content extracted from one or more software development files and identified for updating or translation, wherein the first database stores, from one or more third-party application developers, software applications that require translation, wherein one or more languages selected for translation are selected by the one or more third-party application developers;

receiving by a second database the content stored in the first buffer of the first database, wherein the second database stores profiles associated with one or more translators;

notifying one or more translators of content stored in the second database that matches a language stored in the profiles corresponding to the one or more translators;

receiving updated content from the one or more translators and storing the updated content in a second buffer for verification, wherein the second buffer is isolated from the first database that includes the one or more software development files;

receiving verification of the translated content; and

loading the translated content into the one or more software development files in the first database.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the second database provides a portal for accessing the content selected for translation.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the computer network is in a distributed computing environment where tasks are performed by remote-processing devices that are linked through a communications network.

4. A computer network system including one or more databases communicating over the computer network for translating software, the system comprising:

one or more central processing units (CPU);

a first database executing instructions in the one or more CPUs to store software for one or more applications and having a first buffer that stores content selected for translation, wherein the first database stores, from one or more third-party application developers, software applications that require translation, wherein one or more languages selected for translation are selected by the one or more third-party application developers;

a second database executing instructions in the one or more CPUs to receive the content stored in the first buffer of the first database and to store profiles associated with one or more translators;

a notification component executing instructions in the CPU to notify the one or more translators of content stored in the second database that matches a language stored in the profiles corresponding to the one or more translators; and

a second buffer executing instructions in the one or more CPUs to receive translated content and to store the translated updated content for verification, wherein the second buffer is isolated from the first database that includes one or more software development files corresponding to the one or more applications.

5. The computer network system of claim 4, wherein the first database and the second database are one database.

6. The computer network system of claim 4, wherein the first database and the second database are distributed across several databases.

7. The computer network system of claim 4, wherein the second database executes instructions in the one or more CPUs to provide the translated content to the second buffer.

8. The computer network system of claim 4, wherein the software for the one or more applications is translated when the one or more software development files are selected for loading into the software.

9. The computer network system of claim 4, wherein the second buffer prevents changes from being made directly to the software for the one or more applications.

10. The computer network system of claim 4, wherein the translated content is received from the one or more translators.

11. The computer network system of claim 4, wherein the second database provides a portal for accessing the content selected for translation.

12. The computer network system of claim 4, wherein the second database updates the profiles associated with the one or more translators to record when the one or more translators accessed the second database and when the translated content was received from the one or more translators.

13. The computer network system of claim 4, wherein the one or more translators are authorized to provide the translated content.

14. The computer network system of claim 4, wherein the one or more translators are authorized to provide the translated content when the content selected for translation that is associated with a language stored in the profiles associated with the one or more translators.

15. One or more computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, by one or more physical processors, cause the one or more physical processors to perform operations for translating software, the operations comprising:

storing in a first buffer of a first database content extracted from one or more software development files and identified for translation, wherein the first database stores, from one or more third-party application developers, software applications that require translation, wherein one or more languages selected for translation are selected by the one or more third-party application developers;

receiving at a second database the content stored in the first buffer of the first database, wherein the second database stores profiles associated with one or more translators;

notifying one or more translators of content stored in the second database that matches a language stored in the profiles corresponding to the one or more translators;

receiving translated content from the one or more translators and storing the translated content in a second buffer for verification, wherein the second buffer is isolated from the first database that includes the one or more software development files; and

loading the translated content into the one or more software development files in the first database.

16. The media of claim 15, wherein the translated content stored by the second buffer is tested for errors or malicious content.

17. The media of claim 15, wherein notifications are sent to one or more mobile devices or one or more computing devices identified in the profiles associated with the one or more translators that match one or more languages associated with the content selected for translation.

18. The media of claim 15, wherein the translated content corresponds to the content selected for translation.