Techniques for assisting a user in the textual input of names of entities to a user device in multiple different languages
US8818791B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 30, 2012 |
| Grant date | Aug 26, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 14, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F40/53
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A computer-implemented technique includes receiving a first input from a user at a user device, the first input including a first word of a first alphabet-based language, which is a transliteration of a non-alphabet-based language, which is one of a logogram-based language and a syllabogram-based language. The technique then compares the first words to pluralities of potential translated words from one or more datastores associated with a second alphabet-based language and the logogram-based or syllabogram-based languages. The technique may then generate a probability score for each of the pluralities of potential translated words, the probability score indicating a likelihood of an appropriate translation. The techniques may then provide the user with some or all of the pluralities of potential translated words and the user may select an appropriate translated word to obtain a selected word, which may then be displayed via a display of the user device.
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