Patent Document ID: 8270606
Application ID: 12113567

Base Claim:
1. A method for real-time network communications, comprising: providing a session identifier as a public key for group communication between clients; providing a channel identifier representing a private key for each of a plurality of clients, the channel identifier including client-specific attributes, which function to indicate grouping criteria for the group communication; creating a dynamic communication link over a network between a client and a service based upon the public and private key combination such that group communication is enabled based upon the attributes of the private key and the public key; and translating communications using a translation service which employs the attributes associated with the private key and the public key combination to provide response information in a designated language to enable multi-lingual real-time communications.

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Claim 4:
4. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the translation service includes at least one of distributed speech recognition, automatic speech recognition, real-time translation, machine translation and text to speech synthesis.