Patent ID: 11960850
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. An apparatus for multilingual simultaneous interpretation using a distributed ledger, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:
determining, by a multilingual interpretation server, that a new word has been added to a first language node, the first language node corresponding to a first language;
broadcasting, to a plurality of other language nodes, a request to interpret the new word, each of the plurality of other language nodes corresponding to a different language;
interpreting, by each of the plurality of language nodes, the new word into a particular language;
adding the new word and one or more interpretations of the new word to an entry in a dictionary ledger, wherein the dictionary ledger is a distributed ledger; and
providing a multilingual interpretation client application configured to:
request, from the multilingual interpretation server, a multilingual interpretation of a string; and
deliver, to a user and based on the request, the multilingual interpretation of the string, wherein the multilingual interpretation includes at least one of the one or more interpretations of the new word.