Patents by Inventor Andrew Caples

Andrew Caples 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).

  • FACILITATED COMPARISON OF GEMSTONES
    Publication number: 20220335499
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for facilitating comparison of gemstones having multiple attributes that characterize the gemstones. A facilitated comparison system receives from a user a selection of a gemstone in a collection of the gemstones. Each gemstone in the collection is associated with a selling index indicating a probability of the gemstone being bought by a customer. For each of a predetermined set of the attributes, the system determines one or more comparable ranges. The system identifies alternate gemstones to recommend using the comparable ranges for the attributes and the selling indices of the gemstones. The system displays to the user the selected gemstone and one or more of the alternate gemstones for comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew Caples, Martin Springer, Amanda Johns, Saurabh Verma, Andrew Layman, Akhil Gupta
  • Facilitated comparison of gemstones
    Patent number: 11288728
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for facilitating comparison of gemstones having multiple attributes that characterize the gemstones. A facilitated comparison system receives from a user a selection of a gemstone in a collection of the gemstones. Each gemstone in the collection is associated with a selling index indicating a probability of the gemstone being bought by a customer. For each of a predetermined set of the attributes, the system determines one or more comparable ranges. The system identifies alternate gemstones to recommend using the comparable ranges for the attributes and the selling indices of the gemstones. The system displays to the user the selected gemstone and one or more of the alternate gemstones for comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: BLUE NILE, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Caples, Martin Springer, Amanda Johns, Saurabh Verma, Andrew Layman, Akhil Gupta
  • FACILITATED COMPARISON OF GEMSTONES
    Publication number: 20210035178
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for facilitating comparison of gemstones having multiple attributes that characterize the gemstones. A facilitated comparison system receives from a user a selection of a gemstone in a collection of the gemstones. Each gemstone in the collection is associated with a selling index indicating a probability of the gemstone being bought by a customer. For each of a predetermined set of the attributes, the system determines one or more comparable ranges. The system identifies alternate gemstones to recommend using the comparable ranges for the attributes and the selling indices of the gemstones. The system displays to the user the selected gemstone and one or more of the alternate gemstones for comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Andrew Caples, Martin Springer, Amanda Johns, Saurabh Verma, Andrew Layman, Akhil Gupta