| 7020601 |
Method and apparatus for processing source information based on source placeable elements |
| Mar-28-2006 |
The present invention provides an improved method and apparatus for translating a source language to a target language. The invention uses placeables (e.g., proper nouns, titles and names, dates, times,... |
| 7000185 |
Method and system for customization of a program |
| Feb-14-2006 |
A method and system for preparing a program for customization. The customization system "compiles" a computer program by identifying the content of each statement of the computer program that may be customized.... |
| 6981218 |
Document processing apparatus having an authoring capability for describing a document structure |
| Dec-27-2005 |
An apparatus and method are disclosed for easily generating document data (tag file) in a form that makes it possible to perform various processes upon the document data. An original document (plain text)... |
| 6980953 |
Real-time remote transcription or translation service |
| Dec-27-2005 |
A system and method is provided for real time transcription or translation services. In one aspect of the system and method, a user requests transcription/translation service with certain service parameters.... |
| 6966031 |
Method of organizing and accessing Chinese words |
| Nov-15-2005 |
A method and system of organizing and accessing Chinese words comprises word storage structures having words indexed by the meanings, by the radicals, by the strokes and by the usage frequency thereof;... |
| 6952665 |
Translating apparatus and method, and recording medium used therewith |
| Oct-4-2005 |
A translating apparatus includes a speech recognition unit, a machine translation unit, a speech synthesizing unit, and a dialog management unit. The speech recognition unit recognizes input speech, and... |
| 6944820 |
Ensuring proper rendering order of bidirectionally rendered text |
| Sep-13-2005 |
A method and system are provided for locating specific text in a selection of text and ensuring that the specific text is rendered in the proper order relative to other text in the selection of text according... |
| 6928438 |
Culturally correct ordering of keyed records |
| Aug-9-2005 |
The invention relates to culturally sensitive sorting of records. The invention provides a method and a computer system for sorting a set of keyed records based on a preferred locale specification having... |
| 6915352 |
Infrared transmission system with automatic character identification |
| Jul-5-2005 |
An infrared transmission system with automatic character identification is disclosed. In the process of identifying a selected type of internal code contained in information sent from a sender device,... |
| 6910185 |
Bi-directional text support in legacy applications |
| Jun-21-2005 |
A method and apparatus for support of bi-directional text in legacy applications is disclosed. The method may be used in different embodiments for either monospace or proportionally spaced fonts. In general,... |
| 6873986 |
Method and system for mapping strings for comparison |
| Mar-29-2005 |
A method and system for mapping a number of characters in a string, wherein the string comprises a combination of characters representing indexed expressions and a combination of characters representing... |
| 6865716 |
Method and apparatus for dynamic localization of documents |
| Mar-8-2005 |
A method and apparatus are described for dynamic localization of electronic documents. A user sends a request for a computer system resource from a client computer system (client) via a client application... |
| 6839742 |
World wide contextual navigation |
| Jan-4-2005 |
The invention maintains the context, e.g. the user's language and/or the user's country, while the user is navigating through different related sites or pages. The invention stores and maintains the information... |
| 6826728 |
Collectively designating and installing font types and unicode based languages |
| Nov-30-2004 |
It is an object that in case of installing a font of a unified character code, desired characters corresponding to a country or a region can be installed. To accomplish the above object, a type of a font... |
| 6819338 |
Defining variables used in a multi-lingual internet presentation |
| Nov-16-2004 |
The present invention provides methods, apparatus and systems for defining variables to be used in a multi-lingual presentation system accessed by the Internet network wherein a plurality of visual objects... |
| 6785866 |
Dialogs for multiple operating systems and multiple languages |
| Aug-31-2004 |
The present invention provides a method for a developer to create and display a "dialog definition", i.e., a description of the dialog that has the position and size of its constituent elements expressed... |
| 6757688 |
Enhancement for multi-lingual record processing |
| Jun-29-2004 |
Customer record systems for multinational companies advantageously store both Latin character set (language of the database user) and customer-local language forms of the information so that mailings to... |
| 6675358 |
Font access, registration, display and printing method and a method for processing electronic documents having variant fonts |
| Jan-6-2004 |
To provide a method for font access, a method for font registration, a method for font display, a method for font printing and a method for handling an electronic document in which a variant font is included,... |
| 6658627 |
Integrated and authoring and translation system |
| Dec-2-2003 |
The present invention is a system of integrated, computer-based processes for monolingual information development and multilingual translation. An interactive text editor enforces lexical and grammatical... |
| 6654717 |
Multi-language document search and retrieval system |
| Nov-25-2003 |
A multi-lingual indexing and search system performs tokenization and stemming in a manner which is independent of whether index entries and search terms appear as words in a dictionary. During the tokenization... |
| 6643647 |
Word string collating apparatus, word string collating method and address recognition apparatus |
| Nov-4-2003 |
In a word string collating method for collating an input word string and address data in an address dictionary when a word string using part of a plurality of words of a word string such as address information... |
| 6631501 |
Method and system for automatic type and replace of characters in a sequence of characters |
| Oct-7-2003 |
A method and system for checking the validity of a sequence of input characters according to the syntactical rules of a selected language is provided. If an input character may not be appended to the previously... |
| 6623529 |
Multilingual electronic document translation, management, and delivery system |
| Sep-23-2003 |
A document localization, management and delivery system in a computer environment. A preferred embodiment of the invention automatically determines the language and country of a Web site visitor and directs... |
| 6620207 |
Method and apparatus for processing chinese teletext |
| Sep-16-2003 |
Method and apparatus for processing a Chinese teletext. A first reference list contains Chinese characters which rarely form a phrase with an adjacent character. A second reference list contains Chinese... |
| 6602300 |
Apparatus and method for retrieving data from a document database |
| Aug-5-2003 |
When a keyword described in Japanese is input, the input keyword is converted from Japanese into English. Thus, a retrieval keyword described in English is generated based on the input keyword described... |
| 6587819 |
Chinese character conversion apparatus using syntax information |
| Jul-1-2003 |
The invention provides a Chinese character conversion apparatus using syntax information to obtain a high correct conversion rate by utilizing the speech part attribute of Chinese words. The apparatus... |
| 6571241 |
Multilingual patent information search system |
| May-27-2003 |
There is provided an information search system that can be easily used by a foreigner. A client terminal is connected to an information search apparatus through a network. The information search apparatus... |
| 6542888 |
Content filtering for electronic documents generated in multiple foreign languages |
| Apr-1-2003 |
A system for collecting and categorizing metadata about content provided via the internet or intranet, regardless of the language of generation of the content. The content of each document is assigned... |
| 6539118 |
System and method for evaluating character sets of a message containing a plurality of character sets |
| Mar-25-2003 |
An evaluator system accepts input textual messages in unknown languages and assesses which character sets, corresponding to languages, matches that message. Textual messages whose individual characters... |
| 6526426 |
Translation management system |
| Feb-25-2003 |
A translation management system in a computer environment. A preferred embodiment of the invention automatically detects when a document, data stream, or non-text file in the master language has been updated... |
| 6523031 |
Method for obtaining structured information exists in special data format from a natural language text by aggregation |
| Feb-18-2003 |
A method for obtaining structured information from a natural language text by aggregation. The aggregation includes steps of reading in a natural language text, recognizing sentences and sentence constituents... |
| 6522999 |
Apparatus and method for controlling the display of a translation or dictionary searching process |
| Feb-18-2003 |
When data is converted between a first data and a second data, a relevant information conversion unit performs a process of the first data also on a third data associated with the first data, and outputs... |
| 6519557 |
Software and method for recognizing similarity of documents written in different languages based on a quantitative measure of similarity |
| Feb-11-2003 |
A system for identifying different language versions of the same structured format document (e.g., HTML web page) detects the language of the two documents and translates one or both into a preferred language... |
| 6496844 |
Method, system and computer program product for providing a user interface with alternative display language choices |
| Dec-17-2002 |
A user control is provided to selectively display and/or edit the contents of any field within a multi-field text string object having separate fields each containing a different representation of a text... |
| 6493735 |
Method system and computer program product for storing bi-directional language data in a text string object for display on non-bidirectional operating systems |
| Dec-10-2002 |
For languages requiring bidirectional (left-to-right and right-to-left) text display support, a multi-field text string object encapsulates both a normal logical ordered version of the text string entered... |
| 6493661 |
Reusable multi-language support facility for software |
| Dec-10-2002 |
A software system that includes text messages intended for viewing by a user, where the user can select at any time from various supported spoken languages, the language in which the text messages are... |
| 6490547 |
Just in time localization |
| Dec-3-2002 |
User interface text for dialog boxes, menus, and the like is "localized" with respect to human languages is achieved at run time by transmitting a translation request containing a text string to be translated,... |
| 6480867 |
System and method for managing filesystem objects in a multilingual distributed environment |
| Nov-12-2002 |
System and method aspects for filesystem management in a multilingual distributed computer environment are described. A system includes at least one server system for storing filesystem objects. A remote... |
| 6470306 |
Automated translation of annotated text based on the determination of locations for inserting annotation tokens and linked ending, end-of-sentence or language tokens |
| Oct-22-2002 |
A system and method for translating an annotated source document in a first natural language to a target document in a second natural language having corresponding annotations, includes computer storage,... |
| 6469643 |
Information processing system |
| Oct-22-2002 |
An information processing system for normalizing an input character string and storing the normalized character string is provided whereby the required storage capacity can be cut down. Normalizing means... |
| 6466901 |
Multi-language document search and retrieval system |
| Oct-15-2002 |
A multi-lingual indexing and search system performs tokenization and stemming in a manner which is independent of whether index entries and search terms appear as words in a dictionary. During the tokenization... |
| 6466900 |
Multi-language phrase editor and method thereof |
| Oct-15-2002 |
A method and system is provided for making a database stored upon a computer readable medium for use as a computerized multilingual phrase database in a runtime application environment. A database of all... |
| 6430314 |
Method and apparatus for entering data strings including hangul (Korean) and ASCII characters |
| Aug-6-2002 |
Described are methods for entering and editing data strings that are inputted into cellular telephones having a screen. In one method, all basic Hangul consonants and some of the compound Hangul consonants... |
| 6407754 |
Method, system and computer program product for controlling the graphical display of multi-field text string objects |
| Jun-18-2002 |
An interface to a multi-field text string object is provided to intercept display requests from a control utilizing a single field text string to the multi-field text string object. The interface passes... |
| 6393445 |
System for transforming Chinese character forms in real-time between a traditional character form and a simplified character form |
| May-21-2002 |
A system for transforming Chinese characters in real-time between a first character form and a second character form is disclosed, which has: a first operating means of first Chinese character codes, a... |
| 6389387 |
Method and apparatus for multi-language indexing |
| May-14-2002 |
A method for forming an index comprising indexing features for a plurality of documents, includes the steps of identifying each of at least some of the terms present in the documents, generating from each... |
| 6370498 |
Apparatus and methods for multi-lingual user access |
| Apr-9-2002 |
An apparatus and method for the multi-lingual creation and retrieval of a work from a database storing multiple texts and/or translations of works in a variety of formats. A user can create and retrieve... |
| 6360196 |
Method of and apparatus for retrieving information and storage medium |
| Mar-19-2002 |
A method of retrieving information from a plurality of documents in a target language using a query in a source language, includes the steps of converting the query into the target language using a multilingual... |
| 6356894 |
Document searching method for multilingual documents and storage medium therefore |
| Mar-12-2002 |
The present invention provides a system which enables searching documents at one time, even if they may be written in plural languages, according to key words written in the searcher's language. The system... |
| 6349276 |
Multilingual information retrieval with a transfer corpus |
| Feb-19-2002 |
A method for retrieving information, in accordance with the present invention, includes the steps of providing an initial query in a first language, retrieving data in a second language in accordance with... |
