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WO2001057723A2 - Procede et reseau de telecommunications pour la transmission de messages textuels translitteres - Google Patents

Procede et reseau de telecommunications pour la transmission de messages textuels translitteres Download PDF

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WO2001057723A2
WO2001057723A2 PCT/IL2001/000078 IL0100078W WO0157723A2 WO 2001057723 A2 WO2001057723 A2 WO 2001057723A2 IL 0100078 W IL0100078 W IL 0100078W WO 0157723 A2 WO0157723 A2 WO 0157723A2
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Ofer Glowinsky
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Cellcom Israel Limited
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F40/00—Handling natural language data
    • G06F40/40—Processing or translation of natural language
    • G06F40/58—Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation

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  • the invention relates to telecommunication networks (hereinafter "networks"), for example cellular networks, supporting a text transmission service, for example, short message service (SMS), wireless application protocol (WAP), amongst others.
  • networks for example cellular networks, supporting a text transmission service, for example, short message service (SMS), wireless application protocol (WAP), amongst others.
  • SMS short message service
  • WAP wireless application protocol
  • Cellular telecommunication networks support short message service (SMS) capable of being automatically invoked by date and time specific events stored in a calendar running on a subscriber's workstation for transmitting event associated text messages to the subscriber's cellular telephone.
  • SMS short message service
  • all of the cellular telephones connected to the networks in Israel support English language SMS text messages
  • only some support Hebrew language SMS text messages resulting in relatively low volume SMS traffic due to language difficulties since most of the networks' Hebrew speaking subscribers are quite naturally either not sufficiently fluent in English to introduce English language text messages in their calendars, or are disinclined to write Hebrew to English transliterated text messages such as "Pegisha mahar ba-ll:00 b boker " (transliterated from the Hebrew message " ⁇ i ⁇ m ⁇ i :00- ⁇ inn ⁇ rj g ") whose English translation reads "Meeting tomorrow at 11:00 in the morning”.
  • cellular telephones connected to networks in Israel or elsewhere may not support characters belonging to certain other language alphabets, symbols or other types of
  • a telecommunication network supporting a text transmission service wherein at least one of the telecommunication network end user units connected to the network does not support display of at least a portion of the characters allowable in TTS text messages
  • the method comprising the steps of: (a) receiving a TTS text message, wherein at least a portion of the TTS text message includes characters not supported for display by the end user unit; and (b) transliterating at least a portion of the at least portion of the TTS text message which includes characters not supported for display by the end user unit to characters supported for display by the end user unit.
  • the present invention is based on the notion that most, if not all, of a network's subscribers have the ability to read text messages in the characters supported for display by the end user unit such that they can understand text messages transliterated from the non-supported characters into characters supported for display by the end user unit.
  • the present invention is described for use in Israel where native Israelis speak Hebrew, and the non-supported characters are of the Hebrew language alphabet and the supported characters are of the English language alphabet. Automatic transliteration of Hebrew language portions of SMS text messages enables native Hebrew speakers to type messages in Hebrew thereby saving them the time and bother of considering how to transliterate Hebrew words into English, and then actually typing the English transliterations.
  • the English transliterations will be standardized thereby facilitating recipients' understanding of transliterated messages rather than the same Hebrew word being manually transliterated differently by two different people, or even the same person on different occasions. It is therefore believed that the present invention will be beneficial to both networks' subscribers, and the networks themselves by virtue of higher volume SMS traffic.
  • SMS short message service
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of a telecommunication network supporting a short message service (SMS) in accordance with the present invention.
  • SMS short message service
  • Figure 2 is a flow chart of a method for transliterating SMS text messages in accordance with the present invention.
  • a telecommunication network 1 for example a cellular network, includes a main server 2 running a server exchange, and a SMS server, a plurality of user workstations 3 each running a client exchange in communication with the main server's exchange, a SMS client program, and a calendar, for example, Microsoft's Outlook, and a plurality of telecommunication network end user units 4, for example cellular telephones.
  • cellular telephones are an example of a type of cellular units and that other types of cellular units may be used instead of telephones.
  • Each user workstation's calendar can be set to automatically invoke its associated SMS client program to transmit a SMS text message associated with an event stored therein to one or more end user units 4.
  • Each user workstation's client exchange also runs an automatic transliteration module, for example, as illustrated and described in US Patent 5,432,948, US Patent 5,640,587, and the like. Although the transliteration module is shown as part of workstation 3, it should be evident that in other embodiments the transliteration module can instead be included in end user unit 4, in server 2, or split among workstation 3, end user unit 4, and/or server 2, etc.
  • a network subscriber introduces the Hebrew text message " ⁇ ij7m n :00-n irm ⁇ m g " (whose English translation reads "Meeting tomorrow at 11:00 in the morning” as mentioned earlier) in his workstation's calendar to be sent to his/her end user unit on December 5, 1999, 11 am to remind him/her of a meeting the next day at the same time.
  • his workstation's calendar automatically invokes its associated SMS client program whereupon the Hebrew text message is received by the transliteration module and transliterated to "Pegisha mahar ba-ll:00 baboker ".
  • the transliterated message is displayed on his end user unit in the conventional manner. Transmission of the message via the network can occur before or after transliteration, depending on the operation of the transliteration module, as explained above.
  • the invention can be equally applied to SMS text messages originating from other original text message sources including e-mails, vending machines which issue watchdog alert messages, for example, when the stock level of a certain commodity has fallen to a predetermined level, and the like.
  • the invention may also be applied to original voice message sources, for example, a voice mailbox, and the like.
  • the invention can be applied equally to characters belonging to language alphabets, to symbols, or to any other type of characters which are not supported for display by the end user unit but can be included in SMS text messages.

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Abstract

La présente invention concerne un réseau de télécommunications prenant en charge un service de transmission de textes (TTS), dans lequel au moins une des unités d'utilisateur final reliée au réseau ne prend pas en charge l'affichage d'au moins une partie des caractères qui sont autorisés dans les messages textuels TTS. Ce réseau comprend au moins un module de translittération utilisé pour translittérer au moins une partie du message textuel TTS en caractères pris en charge pour l'affichage par l'unité d'utilisateur final; et au moins un module d'affichage contenu dans l'unité d'utilisateur final pour afficher le message textuel TTS contenant éventuellement la partie translittérée.
PCT/IL2001/000078 2000-02-02 2001-01-26 Procede et reseau de telecommunications pour la transmission de messages textuels translitteres WO2001057723A2 (fr)

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