Distributed Ledger Multilingual Interpretation Synchronization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing large machine interpretation and machine translation dictionaries across multiple languages is challenging due to inconsistencies and the difficulty in synchronizing newly added words, leading to inconsistent quality and proper interpretation or translation.
Innovation Solution
A distributed ledger system is used to synchronize and manage interpretation dictionaries across languages by determining when a new word is added to a language node, broadcasting the request for interpretation to other nodes, and adding the new word and its interpretations to a shared dictionary ledger, ensuring consistent translations across languages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If large machine interpretation and machine translation dictionaries are managed across multiple languages, then the coverage and capability of multilingual interpretation are improved, but the difficulty of managing and synchronizing newly added words increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the centralized dictionary management into distributed language nodes, where each language is represented by an autonomous node that independently manages its own vocabulary. This segmentation allows each node to handle new words independently while maintaining global consistency through the blockchain ledger, thereby improving multilingual capability without proportionally increasing management complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a blockchain-based distributed ledger as an intermediary mechanism that mediates between different language nodes. When a new word is added to one language node, the blockchain automatically propagates and synchronizes this information across all other language nodes, eliminating the need for complex manual synchronization processes while ensuring consistency across all languages.
2Reliability
If machine interpretation dictionaries are synchronized across languages, then the consistency of translation quality is improved, but the time and computational resources required for synchronization increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements continuous synchronization through the blockchain network, where language nodes continuously monitor and propagate new word additions in real-time. Rather than periodic batch synchronization, the system maintains continuous updates, ensuring that translation consistency is maintained without significant time delays while distributing the computational workload across the network.
Solution Approach 2:
Each language node autonomously detects and processes new word additions without requiring centralized coordination. When a new word is added to one node, other nodes automatically receive and process the update through blockchain consensus mechanisms, eliminating the need for time-consuming centralized synchronization processes while maintaining high translation consistency.
3Adaptability or versatility
If new words are added to language nodes, then the vocabulary coverage is improved, but the difficulty of knowing whether newly added words can be properly interpreted or translated increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where each language node monitors and reports new word additions to the blockchain network. Other nodes automatically verify and propagate these additions, creating a distributed feedback loop that ensures new words are properly interpreted and translated across all languages. This automated feedback system eliminates the difficulty of manually verifying interpretation quality while expanding vocabulary coverage.
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AI summary
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for multilingual simultaneous interpretation using a distributed ledger are disclosed. A multilingual interpretation server determines that a new word has been added to a first language node, the first language node corresponding to a first language, and broadcasts, to a plurality of other language nodes, a request to interpret the new word, wherein each of the plurality of other language nodes corresponds to a different language. Each of the plurality of language nodes interprets the new word into a particular language and adds the new word and one or more interpretations of the new word to an entry in a dictionary ledger. A multilingual interpretation service provides simultaneous multilingual translations of from a source language to a plurality of target languages using the shared distributed dictionary ledger. A multilingual interpretation client is provided for accessing services provided by the multilingual interpretation service.