REAL TIME TRANSLATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILE PHONE CONTENTS

• US 20100268525A1
• Filed: 07/17/2008
• Published: 10/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seo-O Telecom Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Seo-O Telecom Company Limited
• Inventors: Park, Ju-Sun, Kim, Seong-Soo
• Application Number:
  US12/669,641
• Publication Number:
  US 20100268525A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/129 Handling non-Latin characters, e.g. kana-to-kanji conversion
• 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: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/2061 Language aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/58 including a multilanguage function
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/487 Arrangements for providing information services, e.g. recorded voice services or time announcements

Abstract

The present invention relates to real time translation system and method for mobile phone contents that include a mobile phone providing an embedded translation menu installed in an operation system and a basic service program and a contents translation menu provided from CP, a gateway routing a material to be translated that is received through an interface interlocking with an SMS server of a mobile communication company when translation is requested from the embedded translation menu of the mobile phone, routing specific ID information of the material to be translated that is received through a WAP server of contents provider when translation is requested through the contents translation menu of the mobile phone, a web server of contents provider routing the material to be translated that is matched with the specific ID transmitted from the gateway, a translation server translating the material transmitted from the interface of the gateway or the web server of CP and producing translated results.

Claims

1. A real time translation system for mobile phone contents, comprising:

a mobile phone providing an embedded translation menu installed in an operation system and a basic service program and a contents translation menu provided from a contents provider (CP);

a gateway, routing a material to be translated that is received through an interface interlocking with an SMS server of a mobile communication company when translation is requested through the embedded translation menu of the mobile phone, routing specific ID information of a material to be translated that is received through a WAP server of CP when translation is requested through the contents translation menu of the mobile phone;

a web server of CP routing the material matched with a specific ID that is transmitted from the gateway; and

a translation server, translating the material transmitted from the interface of the gateway or transmitted from the web server of CP in real time, producing translated results.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile phone comprises a translation icon formed on a keypad or a display screen, which provides translation service using the embedded translation menu or the contents translation menu.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the interface of the gateway converts the translation result into a form requested by the mobile phone when the result translated from the translation server is received and transmits the result to the mobile phone.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the WAP server of CP of the gateway receives the result translated from the translation server through the web server of CP and converts the result into a form requested by the mobile phone and transmits the result to the mobile phone.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the translation server comprises:

a grapheme/character/context recognition unit, analyzing a language of a translation material requested for translation from the user terminal in the unit of token, recognizing the analyzed grapheme/character/context;

a translation processing unit performing translation according to the grapheme/character/context recognized by the grapheme/character/context recognition unit; and

a translation result producing unit producing a final translation result translated from the translation server according to the grapheme/character/context.

6. A real time translation method for mobile phone contents, comprising:

(a) requesting translation of a material to be translated using a translation menu provided from the mobile phone;

(b) determining whether the request for translation from the mobile phone is transmitted through the embedded translation menu of the mobile or transmitted through the contents translation menu provided from the contents provider;

(c) routing the material to be translated that is received through an interface interlocking with an SMS server of a mobile communication company in case of the translation request through the embedded translation menu of the mobile phone, routing a material to be translated that is matched with a specific ID of the material received through the. WAP server of CP in case of the contents translation menu provided from the contents provider; and

(d) producing translated results by translating materials routed through the interface or matched with the specific ID.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

converting the translated results routed through the interface or matched with the specific ID into a form requested from the mobile phone and sending the converted results to the mobile phone.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the step (d) comprises:

analyzing languages of the materials to be translated that are routed through the interface or matched with the specific ID and recognizing the analyzed grapheme/character/context;

performing translation according to the recognized grapheme/character/context; and

producing a final translated result according to the grapheme/character/context.