Michael A Benedikt

US Patent:

6393107, May 21, 2002

Filed:

May 25, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/318140

Inventors:

Thomas J. Ball - Naperville IL
Michael Abraham Benedikt - Chicago IL
Peter Andrew Mataga - Naperville IL
Carlos Miguel Puchol - Naperville IL
Kenneth G. Rehor - Berwyn IL
Curtis Duane Tuckey - Chicago IL

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04M 164

US Classification:

379 8813, 379 671, 379 8817, 379 8822, 379908

Abstract:

A sender ( ) creates a voicemail message that includes a plurality of messaging elements that include embedded instructions that define a structure of the message. Other messaging elements may include textual fragments, audio fragments that refer to audio data files that are associated with the message, and/or references to textual fragments and/or audio fragments that are stored at specified locations. The instructions may define a hierarchical menu structure which, when the message is presented to the recipient ( ) by a messaging system ( ), offers the recipient different navigational choices from which the recipient may select and thus effect the information content of what is presented. The structured message is sent by the sender to the recipient at an address on a messaging system that stores the message and is capable of interpreting and assembling the messaging elements in accordance with the embedded instruction and playing-out the message to the recipient when the recipient accesses the system and retrieves the message from storage. The structured message may also include links to a specific destination, to which the messaging system establishes a connection if the link is selected by the recipient during play-out of the message.

US Patent:

6459774, Oct 1, 2002

Filed:

May 25, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/318441

Inventors:

Thomas J. Ball - Naperville IL
Michael Abraham Benedikt - Chicago IL
Peter Andrew Mataga - Naperville IL
Carlos Miguel Puchol - Naperville IL
Kenneth G. Rehor - Berwyn IL
Curtis Duane Tuckey - Chicago IL

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

H04M 164

US Classification:

379 671, 379 8813, 379 8817, 379 8818, 379 8822, 379 8825, 379908

Abstract:

A sender ( ) creates a voicemail message that includes a plurality of messaging elements that include embedded instructions that define a structure of the message. Other messaging elements may include textual fragments, audio fragments that refer to audio data files that are associated with the message, and/or references to textual fragments and/or audio fragments that are stored at specified locations. The instructions may define a hierarchical menu structure which, when the message is presented to the recipient ( ) by a messaging system ( ), offers the recipient different navigational choices from which the recipient may select and thus effect the information content of what is presented. The structured message is sent by the sender to the recipient at an address on a messaging system that stores the message and is capable of interpreting and assembling the messaging elements in accordance with the embedded instruction and playing-out the message to the recipient when the recipient accesses the system and retrieves the message from storage. The structured message may also include links to a specific destination, to which the messaging system establishes a connection if the link is selected by the recipient during play-out of the message.

US Patent:

7496571, Feb 24, 2009

Filed:

Sep 30, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/955322

Inventors:

Michael Abraham Benedikt - Chicago IL, US
Minos N. Garofalakis - Morristown NJ, US
Rajeev Rastogi - New Providence NJ, US

Assignee:

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707 6, 707 1, 707 2, 707 3, 707 4, 707 5, 707 7, 707101

Abstract:

Method for performing information-preserving DTD schema embeddings between a source schema when matching a source schema and a target schema. The preservation is realized by a matching process between the two schemas that finds a first string marking of the target schema, evaluates a legality of the first string marking, determines an estimated minimal cost of the first string marking and subsequently adjusts the estimated minimal cost based upon one to one mapping of source schema and target schema subcomponents.

US Patent:

7716322, May 11, 2010

Filed:

Sep 23, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/252210

Inventors:

Michael Abraham Benedikt - Chicago IL, US
Juliana Freire Silva - Portland OR, US
Patrice Ismael Godefroid - Naperville IL, US
Avinash Vyas - North Plainfield NJ, US

Assignee:

Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

G06F 15/173
G06F 15/16
G06F 17/00
G06F 17/27

US Classification:

709224, 709217, 715224, 715226

Abstract:

A unique tool, i. e. , “VeriWeb”, is employed to automatically discover and systematically explore Web-site execution paths that can be followed by a user in a Web application. Unlike traditional spiders (or crawlers) that are limited to the exploration of static links, VeriWeb can navigate automatically through dynamic components of Web sites, including form submissions and execution of client-side scripts. Whenever examining a new Web page, the system determines all possible actions a user might perform—be it a link, via a button with a JavaScript handler, or via form submission—and can execute them in a systematic way. In order to systematically test different paths in a Web site, VeriWeb addresses two critical problems: systematic Web site exploration and automatically filling out forms.

US Patent:

20050278368, Dec 15, 2005

Filed:

Mar 31, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/095344

Inventors:

Michael Benedikt - Chicago IL, US
Wenfei Fan - Somerset NJ, US
Rajeev Rastogi - New Providence NJ, US

International Classification:

G06F017/30

US Classification:

707101000

Abstract:

A framework is provided for integrating data from multiple relational sources into an XML document that both conforms to a given DTD and satisfies predefined XML constraints. The framework is based on a specification language, designated Attribute Integration Grammar (AIG), that extends a DTD by (1) associating element types with semantic attributes, (2) computing these attributes via parameterized SQL queries over multiple data sources, and (3) incorporating XML keys and inclusion constraints. The AIG uniquely operates on semantic attributes and their dependency relations for controlling context-dependent, DTD-directed construction of XML documents, and, as well as checks XML constraints in parallel with document-generation.

US Patent:

59665351, Oct 12, 1999

Filed:

Dec 7, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/569046

Inventors:

Michael Abraham Benedikt - Chicago IL
David Alan Ladd - Downers Grove IL
James Christopher Ramming - Menlo Park CA

Assignee:

AT&T Corporation - New York NY

International Classification:

G06F 945

US Classification:

395707

Abstract:

A new application language called the MAWL language and a compiler for the new application language called the MAWL compiler are provided for use by programmers of World Wide Web services. The MAWL language and the MAWL compiler may be used to provide any World Wide Web service, but they are especially useful for programming interactive services. The MAWL language provides an expressive typing capability. Through this expressive ability World Wide Web services that have defined states, sequences and sessions are straightforward where previously such capabilities do not exist. Further, the MAWL compiler performs error checking for common errors and self-consistency before actual compiling so run-time error checking is avoided. Together the MAWL language and the MAWL compiler greatly increase the productivity of the World Wide Web programmer and the complexity of the World Wide Web services that can reliably be provided.

US Patent:

62403915, May 29, 2001

Filed:

May 25, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/318450

Inventors:

Thomas J. Ball - Naperville IL
Michael Abraham Benedikt - Chicago IL
Peter Andrew Mataga - Naperville IL
Carlos Miguel Puchol - Naperville IL
Kenneth G. Rehor - Berwyn IL
Curtis Duane Tuckey - Chicago IL

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

G10L 1100
G10L 1300
H04M 1110

US Classification:

704270

Abstract:

The method for assembling and presenting a structured electronic message begins when the sender creates a voicemail message that includes a plurality of messaging elements that include embedded instructions that define a structure of the message. Other messaging elements may include textual fragments, audio fragments that refer to audio data files that are associated with the message, and/or references to textual fragments and/or audio fragments that are stored at specified locations. The instructions may define a hierarchical menu structure which, when the message is presented to the recipient by a messaging system, offers the recipient different navigational choices from which the recipient may select and thus effect the information content of what is presented. The structured message is sent by the sender to the recipient at an address on a messaging system that stores the message and is capable of interpreting and assembling the messaging elements in accordance with the embedded instruction and playing-out the message to the recipient when the recipient accesses the system and retrieves the message from storage. The structured message may also include links to a specific destination, to which the messaging system establishes a connection if the link is selected by the recipient during play-out of the message.

US Patent:

62020633, Mar 13, 2001

Filed:

May 28, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/322660

Inventors:

Michael Abraham Benedikt - Chicago IL
Leonid Libkin - Basking Ridge NJ

Assignee:

Lucent Technologies Inc. - Murray Hill NJ

International Classification:

G06F 1730

US Classification:

707 3

Abstract:

Methods and apparatus are provided for ensuring that queries presented to a database are safe thus providing solutions to both undecidability and lack of effective syntax issues. In a one aspect of the invention, a method for use in a database system includes obtaining an original query entered by a user. The invention then provides for pre-processing the query before submittal to a database engine associated with the database system wherein a result of the pre-processing operation is to ensure that a query provided to the engine is safe. Safety has a different meaning depending on the application. For example, safety may include ensuring that a query will return an output with finite results or it may include ensuring that certain geometric properties in the query are preserved in the output.

Author:

Michael Benedikt

ISBN #:

0292712006

Author:

Michael Benedikt

ISBN #:

0316088978

Author:

Michael Benedikt

ISBN #:

0316088986

Author:

Michael Benedikt

ISBN #:

0816650101

Author:

Michael Benedikt

ISBN #:

0819510807

Author:

Michael Benedikt

ISBN #:

0819520527

Author:

Michael Benedikt

ISBN #:

0819520802

Author:

Michael Benedikt

ISBN #:

0819540382