Patent Document ID: 20170024372
Application ID: 15283646
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method of identifying a language in a message, the method comprising: obtaining a text message; removing non-language characters from the text message to generate a sanitized text message; detecting at least one of an alphabet and a script present in the sanitized text message, wherein detecting comprises at least one of: (i) performing an alphabet-based language detection test to determine a first set of scores, wherein each score in the first set of scores represents a likelihood that the sanitized text message comprises the alphabet for one of a plurality of different languages; and (ii) performing a script-based language detection test to determine a second set of scores, wherein each score in the second set of scores represents a likelihood that the sanitized text message comprises the script for one of the plurality of different languages; and identifying the language in the sanitized text message based on at least one of the first set of scores, the second set of scores, and a combination of the first and second sets of scores.