Patent Document ID: 7983896
Application ID: 11071706

Base Claim:
1. A method, performed on a computer system, for determining a matching level of a plurality of source texts stored in a translation memory to a lookup segment to be translated, the method comprising: using the computer system to perform the following: determining any exact matches for the lookup segment in the plurality of source texts; determining, in the case that at least one exact match is determined, that a respective exact match is an in-context exact (ICE) match for the lookup segment in the case that a context of the lookup segment matches that of the respective exact match, wherein the context includes at least two levels, wherein the at least two levels includes a usage context level and an asset context level, the usage context level including a preceding usage context level and a post usage context level, the preceding usage context level having a preceding usage context hash code associated therewith and the post usage context level having a post usage context hash code associated therewith; and determining, in the case that greater than one ICE match is determined, a prioritization for each ICE match that is based on a degree of context matching, wherein a more appropriate ICE match is prioritized over one or more other ICE matches, wherein the prioritization includes: first preferring an ICE match having a full usage context match with the lookup segment over an ICE match having only a partial usage context match with the lookup segment, wherein the full usage context match with the lookup segment includes a match with both the preceding usage context hash code and the post usage context hash code and the partial usage context match with the lookup segment includes a match with only one of the preceding usage context hash code and the post usage context hash code, where if the first preferring step is non-conclusive, second preferring an ICE match from the same asset as the lookup segment over an ICE match from a different asset.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the ICE match determining indicates that a respective exact match is an ICE match for the lookup segment only in the case that each context level of the lookup segment matches that of the respective exact match.