RU2143135C1 - Method for cellular telephone network communication combined with simultaneous interpretation - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: communication between users speaking in different languages. SUBSTANCE: after dialing called party number, a calling party enters additional service code, which provides information about required translation languages. Then base station uses this code to search for service center, which provides translation for these languages. Then, called party receives information about payment rate, calling party agrees with the rate and connection is established through service center, which provides simultaneous interpretation. EFFECT: increased functional capabilities. 3 cl

Description

 The invention relates to radio engineering, in particular to systems for cellular radiotelephone communications.

 Paging systems are known in which information at the request of the sending subscriber can be translated into any language with Latin literature.

 However, paging communication is communication communication (information is not exchanged in real time), and therefore simultaneous translation is not required and communication is usually one-way.

 Various cellular communication systems are known, the subscribers of which are provided with a number of services from transmitting weather data and exchange rates (patent GB 2282253, 1995, patent DE 19638251, 1998, EP 315088, 1989, class G 07 G 1 / fourteen).

 However, these services consist in transferring already prepared information, while communication between two cellular subscribers who do not know each other’s language requires an interpreter (i.e. it is impossible to prepare information in advance) and simultaneous translation in a circuit-switched system (real scale negotiation time).

 The closest is the cellular communication method, in which the dialing of the information center number and the dialing of additional information (numbers) indicating the type of additional services is carried out, additional information is analyzed at the base station and the call is sent by wire or radio to the information point from where the requested subscriber is transferred information through the base station (see US patent 4771382, G 07 G 1/14, 1988).

 However, the use of this method to ensure communication between two multilingual subscribers is impossible, because the caller dials the number of the called subscriber, and not the number of the information center.

 The technical result achieved by the invention is to provide cellular radiotelephone communication between multilingual subscribers with simultaneous translation.

 This result is achieved by the fact that the caller, after dialing the number of the called subscriber, dials a service code containing information about the need for translation, the language of the caller and the language of the called subscriber, and at the base station, before connecting the cellular subscribers, the service code is analyzed and the center is searched based on it performing this translation service. The caller receives information about the tariff for this service, and if he suits the caller (he does not cancel the call), the subscribers are connected through the specified service center with simultaneous translation.

 To describe the method, we consider several situations that are possible during its implementation.

 A Russian subscriber located in Japan does not know Japanese. Entering a store, restaurant, etc., he needs to communicate with the staff of this institution to make an order.

 To do this, he dials the number of the service center (the same for the country) and an additional code indicating that the translation is required in Russian. After receiving visually or acoustically in the language the translation from which (in) he ordered, in this case in Russian, the tariff for this service and if this tariff suits him, the subscriber speaks the necessary text in his radiotelephone, which time can be given to the interlocutor. In addition, a micro-telephone headset may be provided, connected in parallel with the microphone and telephone of the radiotelephone.

 The reverse transfer is carried out similarly: the interlocutor speaks, and the subscriber listens to the transfer.

 If the interlocutor has his own radiotelephone, then the subscriber dials his number and carries out the feedback, however, information from the interlocutor to the subscriber and back passes with the transfer.

 Since translators usually translate into one language from their native language (that is, they know two languages, one of which is the language of a given country), it is not always possible to translate, for example, in the following case.

 An Indian (Hindi) based in France wants to talk with a Mexican (Spanish). In this case, the Hindi-Spanish translator might not be at the French Service Center.

 In this case, after analyzing at the base station an additional code indicating that such a transfer is required, a service center is searched for in which the transfer is possible, and its remoteness from the subscriber is included in the tariff indicated to the calling subscriber. Moreover, in order to provide protection against identification of subscribers, the service center does not receive information about the numbers of the calling and called subscribers.

 Implementation of this method will allow to provide additional services to subscribers of the cellular network and increase the load on the cellular network, which is currently low.

Claims (3)

 1. The method of cellular radiotelephone communication with simultaneous translation, which consists in dialing a number by the caller, transmitting an additional service code and making a connection, characterized in that the additional code contains information about the languages of the subscribers, based on the information about the languages of the subscribers, a service center is being searched for these languages, form and transmit to the caller information about the tariff for this service and, with the consent of the caller with the tariff, connect the subscribers through npt services providing simultaneous translation in transferring information.  2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that if one of the languages is the language of the country where the caller is located, the additional code contains only information about the desired translation language.  3. The method according to p. 1, characterized in that the exchange of information by the caller is carried out with both primary and secondary speech-converting elements.