Patent Document ID: 8041556
Application ID: 11291537

Base Claim:
1. A method for locating a pre-existing English translation of a Chinese phrase, the method comprising: a computer accessing a database comprising a plurality of phrases in Chinese and a plurality of phrases translated from Chinese into English, wherein each Chinese proper noun in the plurality of phrases in Chinese is associated with a first marker and each Western character in the plurality of phrases in Chinese is associated with a second marker; the computer accessing table linking one or more Chinese proper nouns associated with the first marker to one or more of a plurality of English proper nouns in the table; the computer identifying a first clause in Chinese for translation into English; the computer responsive to identifying the first clause, removing a set of proper nouns from the first clause to form a modified clause and searching for a matching clause in Chinese in the database that matches the modified clause while ignoring any proper nouns and any Western characters in the database; the computer responsive to locating the matching clause, identifying an English translation for the matching clause in the database and including one or more English proper nouns from the table in the English translation for each proper noun in the set of proper nouns from the first clause to form a translated clause; the computer displaying the first clause and the translated clause on a display; the computer responsive to locating a plurality of matching clauses in the database that match the modified clause and a plurality of English translations for one or more of the plurality of matching clauses, identifying a preceding clause that precedes a first matching clause in the plurality of matching clauses and a following clause that follows the first matching clause in the plurality of matching clauses for one or more matching clauses in the plurality of matching clauses to form a plurality of group clauses; and the computer responsive to identifying the plurality of group clauses, examining one or more preceding clauses and one or more following clauses from the plurality of group clauses and identifying one of the plurality of matching clauses as a closest match to the modified clause based on the one or more preceding clauses and one or more following clauses from the plurality of group clauses.

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Claim 4:
4. A computer system comprising one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices and program instructions which are stored on the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by the one or more processors via the one or more memories and when executed by the one or more processors perform the method of claim 1 .