Patent ID: 6338033
Filing Date: 2002-01-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A network-based teletranslation system for translating documents from one natural language to another, comprising:a client application layer having a plurality of client applications, the client application layer receiving translation documents from one or more software applications and outputting translated documents; a server layer having a plurality of filters, the server layer calling a plurality of filters in an appropriate order based on the translation documents and existing parameters, the filters preprocessing the translation documents to facilitate further preprocessing by subsequent filters, the server layer having a plurality of machine translation engines for translating the translation documents and returning the translated documents; and an intermediate layer coupling the client application layer to the server layer and arbitrating the translation documents among the filters in the server layer; wherein the teletranslation system is capable of handling a wide variety of formats and utilizes a computing power of the network in a scalable and flexible way, and wherein a bandwidth and the speed of the teletranslation system is increased by distributing translation requests among servers in the network.