Patent ID: 7174289

Claim:
A language translating system comprising: a first server which holds a plurality of documents including one or more translatable documents for which translation is permitted; a terminal connected to said first server through a network which sends a connecting request including a pointer indicative of an address of a designated one of said plurality of documents, and receives said designated document from said first server in response to said connecting request; and a second server which obtains said designated document from said first server through said network and outputs a translated document to said terminal through said network if said designated document is determined to be one of said translatable documents, wherein translation permission information indicative of permission to translate has been added to each of said translatable documents held in said first server, and when said pointer indicative of an address of said designated document and a translation request message corresponding to said designated document and including the translation permission information corresponding to said designated document are received by said second server from said terminal through said network, said second server determines whether said designated document is one of said translatable documents, and if so, obtains said translatable document from said first server corresponding to said pointer and translates said translatable document.