Translating system and translating apparatus

• US 20020002451A1
• Filed: 03/05/2001
• Published: 01/03/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Sukehiro, Tatsuya
• Granted Patent: US 7,174,289 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/3
• 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: Y10S 707/99934 Query formulation, input preparation, or translation

Abstract

A Web browser 34 obtains a document in which a pointer indicative of an address in a translating unit 12 has been defined among documents from an HTTP server unit 43. When translation is instructed by the user, the Web browser transmits a translation request message together with a URL of the document to the translating unit 12. The translating unit 12 obtains the document corresponding to the supplied URL and transmits a translation result to the Web browser 34. It is prevented that the document whose translation is not permitted is translated.

Claims

1. A translating system comprising:

a first server which holds a translating document whose translation is permitted;

a terminal connected to said first server through a network; and

a second server which obtains said translating document from said first server through said network and outputs its translation result to said terminal through said network,

wherein translation permission information indicative of permission of translation of said translating document has been added to the translating document, and when a pointer indicative of an address of said translating document and a translation request message corresponding to said translation permission information are received from said terminal through said network, said second server obtains said translating document from said first server corresponding to said pointer and translates said translating document.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein said translation permission information comprises a description of an operation for the translation request to said second server described in said translating document whose translation is permitted.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein said translation permission information comprises a document in which said pointer indicative of the address of said translating document whose translation is permitted has been registered.

4. A system according to claim 3, wherein a link management unit which receives a registration request for requesting a registration of said translation permission information into said translating document together with said pointer indicative of the address of said translating document is provided for said second server, and

said link management unit has:

a transmitter detecting unit which detects a transmitter of said registration request when said pointer and said registration request are received;

an authorized person detecting unit which detects an authorized person having an authorization for translation permission of said translating document as a target of said registration request;

a declaration intention confirming unit which confirms a declaration intention of the translation permission to the authorized person when the transmitter detected by said transmitter detecting unit does not coincide with the authorized person detected by said authorized person detecting unit; and

a registering unit which registers the pointer supplied together with said registration request as said translation permission information when the declaration intention of the translation permission is confirmed by said declaration intention confirming unit.

5. A translating apparatus which is connected to each of a server which holds a translating document whose translation is permitted and a terminal through a network, comprising:

a communication control unit which receives a pointer indicative of an address of said translating document whose translation is permitted and a translation request message including translation permission information showing that the translation of said translating document corresponding to said pointer has been permitted from said terminal through said network and obtains said translating document corresponding to said pointer from said server; and

a translating unit which translates said translating document obtained via said communication control unit when said communication control unit receives said translation request message,

wherein a translated sentence obtained by said translating unit is transmitted to said terminal through said communication control unit.

6. An apparatus according to claim 5, further comprises a storing device which stores said translated sentence.