Patent ID: 7031906
Filing Date: 2006-04-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system for conversation through a network, comprising: a server apparatus which transfers character-based messages through said network; a plurality of terminal apparatuses which perform a conversation using said-character based messages transferred by said server apparatus through said network; and a translating apparatus connected to said network, which when it receives one of said character-based messages, which is transmitted from one of said plurality of terminal apparatuses through said network in a first language, translates said one received message in said first language into a translated character-based message in a second language, and transmits said the translated message in said second language to said server apparatus, wherein said server apparatus transfers said translated message which is received from said translating apparatus in said second language to at least one terminal apparatus during a conversation among said plurality of terminal apparatuses, said translating apparatus, when it receives another one of said character-based messages, which is transmitted in said second language by another terminal apparatus other than said one terminal apparatus, translates said another received message in said second language into another translated message in said first language, and transmits said another translated message in said first language to said server apparatus, and said translating apparatus includes: a recording unit which records a history of the translation of the one received message in said first language into the translated message in said second language and a history of the translation of the another received message in said second language into the another translated message in the first language; and a charging unit which charges said one terminal apparatus in accordance with said histories recorded in said recording unit.