Automatic natural language translation during information transfer

• US 8,122,424 B2
• Filed: 10/03/2008
• Issued: 02/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Berstis, Viktors, Chen, Yen-Fu, Dunsmoir, John W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wang, Philip
• Application Number:
  US12/245,403
• Publication Number:
  US 20090030672A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,236 Days
• Field of Search: 717/100, 704/2
• US Class Current: 717/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• 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

Abstract

Content is transferred from one computer resource to another by enabling automatic cutting-and-pasting in a destination first, source second sequence, a user selecting insertion points in the contents of a destination computer resource, followed by the user selecting information elements in a source computer resource, subsequently automatically intercepting transfer of the selected information elements to the destination, determining which intercepted information elements are expressed in a natural language not matching a user-specified natural language, invoking a rule management user interface to allow the user to define an action to be taken, performing the specified language handling actions on the intercepted information elements, and transferring translated information elements to the destination computer resource.

Claims

1. A method for transferring content from one computer resource to another computer resource, comprising:

intercepting by a computer a user-selected information element during transfer from a source

computer resource to a destination computer resource;

determining by a computer a natural language in which the intercepted information element is expressed;

responsive to the expressed natural language not matching a user-specified preferred

natural language;

searching by a computer for a handling rule corresponding to the expressed

natural language;

responsive to finding no corresponding handling rule;

invoking by a computer a rule management user interface; and

allowing by a computer a user to define a handling rule

corresponding to the expressed natural language; and

performing by a computer a natural language handling action on the

intercepted information element to translate the intercepted information element into the preferred natural language, wherein the handling action comprises isolating certain information elements according to the handling rules, thereby blocking transfer of the certain information elements to the destination; and

transferring by a computer the translated information element to the destination computer resource.

2. A computer program product for transferring content from one computer resource to another computer resource the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices;

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to intercept a user-selected information element during transfer from a source computer resource to a destination computer resource;

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to determine a natural language in which the intercepted information element is expressed;

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to, responsive to the expressed natural language not matching a user-specified preferred natural language;

search for a handling rule corresponding to the expressed natural language;

responsive to finding no corresponding handling rule;

invoke a rule management user interface; and

allow a user to define a handling rule corresponding to the expressed natural language; and

perform a natural language handling action on the intercepted information element to translate the intercepted information element into the preferred natural language; and

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, to transfer the translated information element to the destination computer resource;

wherein the handling action comprises isolating certain information elements according to the handling rules, thereby blocking transfer of the certain information elements to the destination.

3. A computer system for transferring content from one computer resource to another computer resource, the computer system comprising:

one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories and one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices;

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, to provide a first user interface portion of a computer configured to intercept a user-selected information element during transfer from a source computer resource to a destination computer resource; and

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, to determine a natural language in which the intercepted information element is expressed;

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, to responsive to the expressed natural language not matching a user-specified preferred natural language, search for a handling rule corresponding to the expressed natural language, and responsive to finding no corresponding handling rule, invoke a rule management user interface, to allow a user to define a handling rule corresponding to the expressed natural language;

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, to perform a natural language handling action on the intercepted information element to translate the intercepted information element into the preferred natural language; and

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, to transferring the translated information element to the destination computer resource;

wherein the handling action comprises isolating certain information elements according to the handling rules, thereby blocking transfer of the certain information elements to the destination.