Patent Document ID: 8914395
Application ID: 13733858

Base Claim:
1. A method for translation of a medical database query from a first language into a second language, the method executed by one or more computer processors programmed to perform the method, the method comprising: receiving, at a processor from a user via a network, a query for a medical database, wherein the query is in the first language; transmitting, by a processor, the received query to a plurality of translation engines; receiving, at a processor, a plurality of translations for the query from the first language into the second language, wherein a respective translation is received from each translation engine in the plurality of translation engines; determining, by the processor, a respective ranking score for each received translation of the plurality of received translations; selecting, by the processor and based on the determined ranking scores, a translation from the plurality of translations; and performing one or both of: (i) transmitting, by a processor and via the network, the selected translation to the user, and (ii) utilizing, by a processor, the selected translation to search the medical database to obtain search results for the query, and transmitting, by a processor and via the network, the obtained search results to the user, wherein determining the respective ranking score for each translation comprises determining the respective ranking score based on (i) a literature criterion, the literature criterion indicating a frequency of appearance of the translation in a body of literature contained in the medical database, (ii) a search log criterion, the search log criterion indicating a frequency of appearance of the translation in a record of queries previously entered into the medical database, or (iii) both a literature criterion, the literature criterion indicating a frequency of appearance of the translation in a body of literature contained in the medical database, and a search log criterion, the search log criterion indicating a frequency of appearance of the translation in a record of queries previously entered into the medical database.

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Claim 4:
4. A method according to claim 1 , wherein determining the respective ranking score for each translation, when the respective ranking score is determined based on the search criterion, comprises: determining a respective search factor that indicates frequency of appearance of the translation in the record of queries previously entered into the medical database; normalizing the respective search factor with respect to search factors determined for the other translations in the plurality of translations to produce a normalized search factor for the translation; and utilizing the normalized search factor for the translation as the ranking score for the translation.