Patents by Inventor Spyros Kotoulas

Spyros Kotoulas 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: 11488701
    Abstract: Embodiments for generating personalized advice to a user by a processor. A health state of a user may be learned from feedback information collected from a plurality of data sources for providing one or more customized communications. One or more customized communications may be provided to a user to alter one or more activities of the user so as to avoid one or more possible negative impacts upon the health state of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joao H. Bettencourt Da Silva, Spyros Kotoulas, Natasha Mulligan, Marco Luca Sbodio
  • Patent number: 11443212
    Abstract: Various embodiments are provided for learning policy explanations in a computing environment by a processor. One or more explanations may be provided that justify validity or invalidity of a claim based on one or more rules extracted from one or more segments of text data of a policy data source using a machine learning operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Kishimoto, Radu Marinescu, Spyros Kotoulas
  • Patent number: 11194784
    Abstract: Techniques are described for extracting structured information from unstructured documents based on validation of the structured information as applied to a domain problem associated with the unstructured documents. In one embodiment, a computer program product for automated information extraction is provided. The computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program executable by a processing component to cause the processing component to extract structured candidate interpretations of a rule from unstructured information that defines a plurality of rules intended to control operations of a system, and determine measures of validity of the structured candidate interpretations based on application of the candidate policy interpretations to historical operational data for the system that represents operations performed by the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Theodora Brisimi, Spyros Kotoulas, Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Valentina Rho, Natalia Mulligan
  • Patent number: 11195119
    Abstract: A capability to identify and visualize relationships and commonalities amongst record entities is provided. A plurality of entities are extracted from one or more records. Each extracted entity is associated with a respective feature vector within a vector space of a feature matrix. The feature vectors are distributed within the feature matrix based on semantic relationships amongst the entities of a corpus. Multidimensional coordinates within a dimensionally-reduced vector space of the feature matrix are generated for each extracted entity. One or more cells of a cellular presentation of the feature matrix are identified such that each identified cell represents one or more respective extracted entities. Each cell represents (i) a respective range of multidimensional coordinates within the dimensionally-reduced vector space of the feature matrix and (ii) one or more feature vectors of the plurality of feature vectors within the feature matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Joao H. Bettencourt da Silva, Mark B. Hughes, Spyros Kotoulas, Caroline A. O'Connor
  • Patent number: 11068439
    Abstract: A method for unsupervised transformation of denormalized data into RDF data includes summarizing an existing resource description framework (RDF) file wherein a data summary file is produced, wherein said RDF file includes a plurality of nodes, property labels, and literals and is represented as a directed graph, and said data summary file is a graph that includes a single instance of each node-property-literal triple in the RDF file; analyzing a plurality of denormalized records wherein a record summary is produced, wherein said record summary is represented as a directed graph with a root node corresponding to each record connected to a node for each field in the record; determining one or more transformation patterns that match elements of the record summary to elements of the data summary; and transforming the plurality of denormalized records into a new RDF file by executing one of the one or more transformation patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Veli Bicer, Nuno Lopes, Spyros Kotoulas, Martin Stephenson
  • Patent number: 11033216
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for augmenting, in real-time, queries/questionnaires administered to a subject by coupling the physiological response of the subject for a given question-answer pair. Further, a method/system augments/annotates answers to questionnaires/surveys/etc. with automatically detected physiological or emotional reactions of the person answering the question/survey/etc. In an embodiment, methods are implemented to: create an augmented representation of question-answer-emotion (i.e., annotating questions/answers from assessments to physiological reactions); and consider the augmented representation and the user profile to suggest actions based on such associations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marco Luca Sbodio, Spyros Kotoulas, Daniel Rejniak, James Shannon, Nagesh Yadav
  • Patent number: 10783154
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for transposing ranking models. The method includes computer processors determining an initial ranking modeling framework for a record based on analyzing data from a plurality of sources. The record includes a plurality of objects and an object includes at least one feature. The method further includes computer processors determining a mapping of relationships between features included in the record. The method further includes computer processors identifying a user selection of a feature. The method further includes computer processors determining a transposition path between the user selected feature and a set of features having a determined mapped relationship to the user selected feature. The method further includes computer processors modifying ranking information associated with features included in the determined transposition path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Spyros Kotoulas, Natasha Mulligan, Marco Luca Sbodio
  • Publication number: 20200250557
    Abstract: Various embodiments are provided for learning policy explanations in a computing environment by a processor. One or more explanations may be provided that justify validity or invalidity of a claim based on one or more rules extracted from one or more segments of text data of a policy data source using a machine learning operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro KISHIMOTO, Radu MARINESCU, Spyros KOTOULAS
  • Publication number: 20200125659
    Abstract: Techniques are described for extracting structured information from unstructured documents based on validation of the structured information as applied to a domain problem associated with the unstructured documents. In one embodiment, a computer program product for automated information extraction is provided. The computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program executable by a processing component to cause the processing component to extract structured candidate interpretations of a rule from unstructured information that defines a plurality of rules intended to control operations of a system, and determine measures of validity of the structured candidate interpretations based on application of the candidate policy interpretations to historical operational data for the system that represents operations performed by the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Theodora Brisimi, Spyros Kotoulas, Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Valentina Rho, Natalia Mulligan
  • Publication number: 20200111054
    Abstract: Techniques for automated auditing claims are presented. A policy processor component can determine conditions and constraints relating to claim validity, based on a result of an analysis of policy data of a set of policies associated with a service identity and relating to services and procedures, to facilitate generation of probabilistic logic data relating to the conditions and constraints relating to the claim validity. The policy processor component can encode the conditions and the constraints to generate the probabilistic logic data, and store the probabilistic logic data and information relating to the conditions and constraints in a knowledge database component. A claim management component can determine a validity status of a claim and a probability that the validity status is correct based on evaluation of the probabilistic logic data and claim data relating to the claim. The validity status can be valid or invalid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Radu Marinescu, Akihiro Kishimoto, Spyros Kotoulas, Vanessa Lopez Garcia
  • Patent number: 10565291
    Abstract: Input text containing a plurality of patient information can be annotated for annotations and extracted. One or more annotations are parsed for relevant contextual information. The one or more annotations are assigned a semantic type. The one or more annotations are visually isolated, personalized to a user profile job, and outputted. The one or more extracted annotations are subjected to natural language processing operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Marco Luca Sbodio, Spyros Kotoulas, Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Natalia Mulligan, Pierpaolo Tommasi
  • Patent number: 10419395
    Abstract: Accessing data stored on a remote server includes determining a first address of a first server where a block of data identified by a key has been moved from a second server to the first server, the second server having a second address. A first entry of a switch flow table of a datacenter network is updated to indicate that received packets with a destination address including the second address are to be overwritten with the first address. The data center network includes a plurality of physical network switches. A second entry in the switch flow table may be configured to forward packets with the first address to a first port associated with the first server and a first set of the switches. If the second entry is not already present in the table, the second entry may be inserted into the switch flow table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Konstantin Katrinis, Spyros Kotoulas
  • Publication number: 20190213167
    Abstract: A capability to identify and visualize relationships and commonalities amongst record entities is provided. A plurality of entities are extracted from one or more records. Each extracted entity is associated with a respective feature vector within a vector space of a feature matrix. The feature vectors are distributed within the feature matrix based on semantic relationships amongst the entities of a corpus. Multidimensional coordinates within a dimensionally-reduced vector space of the feature matrix are generated for each extracted entity. One or more cells of a cellular presentation of the feature matrix are identified such that each identified cell represents one or more respective extracted entities. Each cell represents (i) a respective range of multidimensional coordinates within the dimensionally-reduced vector space of the feature matrix and (ii) one or more feature vectors of the plurality of feature vectors within the feature matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Joao H. Bettencourt da Silva, Mark B. Hughes, Spyros Kotoulas, Caroline A. O'Connor
  • Patent number: 10282485
    Abstract: Technique to determine relative relevance of pairs of nodes in a linked data graph, such as an RDF graph, including calculation of raw relevance scores (which are based upon adjacency relations between nodes after edge filtering, the incoming and outgoing degrees of nodes in the graph after the edge filtering, and the distance (or weight) values of the edge(s)) and/or “refined relevance scores,” which take into account “complementary nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Adi I. Botea, Elizabeth M. Daly, Akihiro Kishimoto, Spyros Kotoulas
  • Publication number: 20190121841
    Abstract: Input text containing a plurality of patient information can be annotated for annotations and extracted. One or more annotations are parsed for relevant contextual information. The one or more annotations are assigned a semantic type. The one or more annotations are visually isolated, personalized to a user profile job, and outputted. The one or more extracted annotations are subjected to natural language processing operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Marco Luca Sbodio, Spyros Kotoulas, Vanessa Lopez Garcia, Natalia Mulligan, Pierpaolo Tommasi
  • Publication number: 20190110728
    Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for augmenting, in real-time, queries/questionnaires administered to a subject by coupling the physiological response of the subject for a given question-answer pair. Further, a method/system augments/annotates answers to questionnaires/surveys/etc. with automatically detected physiological or emotional reactions of the person answering the question/survey/etc. In an embodiment, methods are implemented to: create an augmented representation of question-answer-emotion (i.e., annotating questions/answers from assessments to physiological reactions); and consider the augmented representation and the user profile to suggest actions based on such associations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Marco Luca Sbodio, Spyros Kotoulas, Daniel Rejniak, James Shannon, Nagesh Yadav
  • Publication number: 20190102394
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for transposing ranking models. The method includes computer processors determining an initial ranking modeling framework for a record based on analyzing data from a plurality of sources. The record includes a plurality of objects and an object includes at least one feature. The method further includes computer processors determining a mapping of relationships between features included in the record. The method further includes computer processors identifying a user selection of a feature. The method further includes computer processors determining a transposition path between the user selected feature and a set of features having a determined mapped relationship to the user selected feature. The method further includes computer processors modifying ranking information associated with features included in the determined transposition path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Spyros Kotoulas, Natasha Mulligan, Marco Luca Sbodio
  • Patent number: 10248701
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention provides a method wherein a database query including a first constraint and additional constraint(s) are received in a first node. Data in the first node that satisfies the first constraint is identified, encoded, and sent to a second node. Encoded data is identified in a mapping table in the second node; and, one or more missing identifiers are identified that include encoded data that is not in the mapping table. The missing identifier is sent to the first node, decoded to retrieve the value of the missing identifier, and mapped to the retrieved value. The mapping of the missing identifier and the retrieved value are sent to the second node. A dictionary in the second node is queried with the retrieved value to identify an identification number for the retrieved value. The missing identifier is mapped to the identification number for the retrieved value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Spyros Kotoulas, Marco L. Sbodio, Martin J. Stephenson, Pierpaolo Tommasi
  • Publication number: 20190080055
    Abstract: Embodiments for generating personalized advice to a user by a processor. A health state of a user may be learned from feedback information collected from a plurality of data sources for providing one or more customized communications. One or more customized communications may be provided to a user to alter one or more activities of the user so as to avoid one or more possible negative impacts upon the health state of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joao H. BETTENCOURT DA SILVA, Spyros KOTOULAS, Natasha MULLIGAN, Marco Luca SBODIO
  • Publication number: 20180365590
    Abstract: Techniques facilitating assessment result determination based on predictive analytics and/or machine learning are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can comprise matching, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, input data retained in a knowledge source database to an inquiry included in a received questionnaire. The input data can be associated with a target entity. The computer-implemented method can also comprise generating, by the system, a response to the inquiry based on the input data retained in the knowledge source database and a feature value that specifies a defined form of the response. The response can be based on an applicability of the input data to the target entity. Further, generating the response can be based on machine learning applied to information retained in the knowledge source database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Fabrizio Cucci, Spyros Kotoulas, Vanessa Lopez, Marco Luca Sbodio