US 10,540,452 B1Granted

Automated translation of applications

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorBrett Andrews

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Abstract

This disclosure describes providing and improving upon automated techniques for translating words presented by an application from one natural language into one or more different natural languages. In some examples, the techniques include obtaining a file that includes strings that have been stripped out, copied, or otherwise obtained from source code of an application. Further, the techniques include automating the communication of the strings to a translator service, and the receipt of translated strings from the translator service that have been translated into one or more natural languages. Additionally, one or more files may be generated to store the translated strings according to the natural languages to which the strings were translated. Finally, the files including the translated strings may be stored in a location, such as a repository, where they may be provided to clients of the application according to the natural languages of the clients.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
one or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
providing a computing device with access to a command-line interface (CLI) to receive commands from the computing device, the computing device being associated with an application developer;
receiving, via the CLI and from the computing device, an indication that source code of an application was at least one of modified or pushed to a repository;
at least partly responsive to receiving the indication, sending, to a translation service, a request to translate first application strings from a first natural language to a second natural language, the first application strings associated with the source code of the application and included in a first data file stored in the repository;
receiving, from the translation service, second application strings that are in the second natural language, wherein individual strings of the second application strings are translations of individual strings of the first application strings;
generating a second data file including the second application strings;
and
storing the second data file in the repository.

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A system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
one or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
monitoring a repository that stores first source code of an application;
detecting a trigger event associated with second source code being stored in the repository, the trigger event comprising at least one of:
an update to the first source code to generate the second source code;
or
an addition of the second source code to the repository;
identifying a first data file including a first string associated with first source code of an application, the first string being in a first natural language;
based at least in part on detecting the trigger event, causing the first string to be sent to a translation service;
receiving, from the translation service, a second string in a second natural language, the second string comprising a translation of the first string;
generating a second data file including the second string;
and
causing the second data file to be stored in a repository.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/014,761Filed 21 Jun 2018
Granted: 21 Jan 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06F 40/58
Processing or translation of natural language: use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for…
G06F 9/454
Execution arrangements for user interfaces: multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation
G06F 9/45512
Runtime interpretation or emulation, e g. emulator loops, bytecode interpretation: command shells
G06F 16/173
Details of further file system functions: customisation support for file systems, e.g. localisation, multi-language support, personalisation