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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2008
Yishan Wong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stephen M. Grimm, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nicolas Vera, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Marcel Laverdet, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ting Yin Kwan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Christopher W. Putnam, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Javier Olivan-lopez, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Katherine P. Losse, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rebekah Cox, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chad Little, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yishan Wong, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stephen M. Grimm, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nicolas Vera, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Marcel Laverdet, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ting Yin Kwan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Christopher W. Putnam, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Javier Olivan-Lopez, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Katherine P. Losse, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rebekah Cox, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chad Little, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for translating text in a social network. In one embodiment translations of text phrases are received from members of the social network. These text phrases include content displayed in a social networking system, such as content from social networking objects. A particular member is provided with content including a text phrase in a first language, and the member requests translation into another language. Responsive to this request, a translation of the text phrase is selected from a set of available translations. The selection is based on actions by friends of the member in the social network, the actions being associated with the set of available translations. These actions can the viewing of or approval of translations by the friends, for example. The selected translation is then presented to the member requesting the translation.