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Granted Patent B2
US 8,768,689 · App. 11/674,925 · Granted Jul 1, 2014

Method and system for translation management of source language text phrases

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,768,689
App. No.
11/674,925
Granted
Jul 1, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A computer system for implementing a method for managing translations of text phrases is disclosed. The system stores text phrases in a source language as individual entries within a database. The system also stores any imported text phrases in a target language as individual entries within the database. For each text phrase in the source language stored within the database, the system is operable to communicate a notification of an exclusion of a corresponding text phrase in the target language within the database. Also for each stored text phrase stored in the source language within the database, the system is operable to communicate a notification of a modification of a text phrase in the source language as stored within the database after a storage of a corresponding text phrase in the target language within the database.

Claims (24)

1. A method for managing a translation of a master text file, said method comprising:

storing a first source language text phrase within a data set;

storing a target language text phrase as a translated version of the first source language text phrase within the data set after a storage of the first source language text phrase within the data set;

storing a second source language text phrase as a modified version of the first source language text phrase within the data set after a storage of the first source language text phrase within the data set;

communicating a notification indicating the target language text phrase is an incorrect translation when the second source language text phrase is stored within the data set after a storage of the target language text phrase within the data set;

storing a first timestamp within the data set that indicates a date and a time of the storage of the target language text phrase within the data set;

storing a second timestamp within the data set that indicates a date and a time of the storage of the second source language text phrase within the data set; and

storing a copy of the second source language text phrase in a translated text file containing the target language text phrase when a comparison of the first timestamp and the second timestamp indicates a storage of the second source language text phrase within the data set occurred after the storage of the target language text phrase within the data set.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

setting a flag within the database when a comparison of the first timestamp and the second timestamp indicates a storage of the second source language text phrase within the data set occurred after the storage of the target language text phrase within the data set.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein said setting of the flag is communicated as the notification.

4. A system for managing a translation of a master text file, said system comprising:

a data set;

a computer;

wherein said computer is programmed to control a storage of a first source language text phrase within said data set;

wherein said computer is further programmed to control a storage of a target language text phrase as a translated version of the first source language text phrase within said data set after the storage of the first source language text phrase within said data set;

wherein said computer is further programmed to control a storage of a second source language text phrase as a modified version of the first source language text phrase within said data set after a the storage of the first source language text phrase within said data set;

wherein said computer is further programmed to communicate a notification indicating the target language text phrase is an incorrect translation responsive to said computer determining that the second source language text phrase is stored within said data set after a storage of the target language text phrase within said data set;

wherein said computer is further programmed to store a first timestamp that indicates a date and a time of the storage of the target language text phrase within the data set;

wherein said computer is further programmed to store a second timestamp that indicates a date and a time of the storage of the second source language text phrase within the data set; and

wherein said computer is further programmed to store a copy of the second source language text phrase in a translated text file containing the target language text phrase when a comparison of the first timestamp and the second timestamp indicates a storage of the second source language text phrase within the data set occurred after the storage of the target language text phrase within the data set.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein:

said computer is further programmed to control a setting of a flag within said data set when a comparison of the first timestamp and the second timestamp indicates the storage of the second source language text phrase within said data set occurred after the storage of the target language text phrase within said data set.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein said computer is further programmed to communicate a setting of the flag as the notification.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 2, 2009
From: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
To: NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
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