Patent attributes
Processing a transmission between a user and a database, involving determining whether the transmission relates to a query or a response from the database, and if it relates to a query, restricting translation to a list of predetermined translation relations; and if it relates to a response, looking up the list to find a translation relation for a word in the response, and if no such translation relation exists for the word in the list, transmitting the word to a translation service to subsequently receive a translation relation between the word and a corresponding word in the user language, which translation relation is stored in the list. Consequently, words transmitted between the database and the user are only translated by means of a translating service—where ambiguities can be introduced—when the words are supplied from the database.
