Patents by Inventor Eleni Pratsini

Eleni Pratsini has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11423486
    Abstract: A method for production refactoring of a company comprises quantifying risks stemming from regulations, in particular from an introduction of new regulation. It further comprises identifying actions to take in order to reduce an exposure to risk, quantifying costs of said actions and determining a revenue at risk depending on a revenue and a probability of failure representing said risks. Furthermore, it comprises determining a sequence of actions for solving an improvement problem depending on said revenue at risk and said costs of said actions and profits reducing said revenue at risks and said costs of said actions and increasing said profits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hugh Browne, Frances Bruttin, Douglas Dean, Christopher M. Kenyon, Eleni Pratsinis, Walter Van Dyck
  • Patent number: 11158210
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product for a cognitive, real-time feedback speaking coach are provided. The embodiment may include capturing a plurality of text from a prepared document. The embodiment may also include capturing a plurality of user voice data and a plurality of user movement data. The embodiment may further include calculating a speaker rating based on the plurality of received user voice data, the plurality of received user movement data, and the plurality of captured text. The embodiment may also include identifying one or more points of improvement based on the calculated speaker rating. The embodiment may further include alerting a user of the one or more identified points of improvement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Catherine H. Crawford, Eleni Pratsini, Ramya Raghavendra, Aisha Walcott
  • Patent number: 10382579
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention include methods, systems and computer program products. The method includes a detecting, by a processor, a presence of a user at a location. The method further includes detecting, by the processor, a presence of one or more sensors at the location, where the one or more sensors are communicatively coupled together and to the processor. The method further includes determining, by the processor, that the user can be sensed by the one or more sensors at the location. The method further includes notifying, by the processor, the user that a selectable personalized service is available to the user at the location. The method further includes providing, by the processor, the selectable personalized service to the user at the location, where the selectable personalized service notifies the user as to an existence of any anomalies with respect to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin Mevissen, Eleni Pratsini, Giovanni Russo, Robert Shorten
  • Publication number: 20190139447
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product for a cognitive, real-time feedback speaking coach are provided. The embodiment may include capturing a plurality of text from a prepared document. The embodiment may also include capturing a plurality of user voice data and a plurality of user movement data. The embodiment may further include calculating a speaker rating based on the plurality of received user voice data, the plurality of received user movement data, and the plurality of captured text. The embodiment may also include identifying one or more points of improvement based on the calculated speaker rating. The embodiment may further include alerting a user of the one or more identified points of improvement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Catherine H. Crawford, Eleni Pratsini, Ramya Raghavendra, Aisha Walcott
  • Publication number: 20180249299
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention include methods, systems and computer program products. The method includes a detecting, by a processor, a presence of a user at a location. The method further includes detecting, by the processor, a presence of one or more sensors at the location, where the one or more sensors are communicatively coupled together and to the processor. The method further includes determining, by the processor, that the user can be sensed by the one or more sensors at the location. The method further includes notifying, by the processor, the user that a selectable personalized service is available to the user at the location. The method further includes providing, by the processor, the selectable personalized service to the user at the location, where the selectable personalized service notifies the user as to an existence of any anomalies with respect to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Martin Mevissen, Eleni Pratsini, Giovanni Russo, Robert Shorten
  • Publication number: 20110153383
    Abstract: A method and system for the distributed elicitation and aggregation of risk information is provided. The method comprises selecting a risk network, the risk network comprising one or more risk nodes having associated risk information; assigning a role to each risk node, said role indicating a type of user to evaluate the risk node; generating a customized survey to elicit risk information for a risk node based upon the role and the user, wherein an order of questions in the customized survey presented to the user is determined by an ordering criteria; publishing the customized survey to the user; collecting risk information for the risk node from the user's answers to the customized survey; and populating the risk nodes based on the collected risk information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Debarun Bhattacharjya, Lea A. Deleris, Andre Elisseeff, Shubir Kapoor, Eleni Pratsini, Bonnie K. Ray, Wititchai Sachchamarga
  • Publication number: 20060259308
    Abstract: A method for production refactoring of a company comprises quantifying risks stemming from regulations, in particular from an introduction of new regulation. It further comprises identifying actions to take in order to reduce an exposure to risk, quantifying costs of said actions and determining a revenue at risk depending on a revenue and a probability of failure representing said risks. Furthermore, it comprises determining a sequence of actions for solving an improvement problem depending on said revenue at risk and said costs of said actions and profits reducing said revenue at risks and said costs of said actions and increasing said profits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Hugh Browne, Frances Bruttin, Douglas Dean, Christopher Kenyon, Eleni Pratsinis, Walter Dyck