Patent Document ID: 7849144
Application ID: 11388982

Base Claim:
1. A method in a server, the method comprising: detecting by the server an instant message having been sent by a sending party for delivery to a destination party, the instant message expressed in a first language; determining by the server a language preference for the destination party to receive the instant message, the determining being independent of whether any translation request has been requested by the sending party; selectively clearing by the server a cache that stores translation results of prior transmitted instant messages having been sent by the sending party, based on the server determining the translation results of the prior transmitted instant messages are no longer viable for context-based translation of the instant message; the server causing translation of the instant message having been sent by the sending party into a translated instant message, expressed in a second language, based on the language preference for the destination party, wherein the instant message follows a sequence of the prior transmitted instant messages having been sent by the sending party and having been translated and sent to the destination party in the second language, the causing translation including causing translation of the instant message relative to a context of the sequence of prior transmitted instant messages based on the server retrieving from the cache the translation results of the prior transmitted instant messages determined as viable to the context-based translation of the instant message, and initiating the context-based translation of the instant message relative to the translation results; and sending by the server the translated instant message in the second language to the destination party.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising sending a notification to the sending party recommending use of a third language, distinct from the first language, for messages destined to the destination party, based on identifying the third language as usable by the sending party and the receiving party.