Patents by Inventor William J. Wildern, IV

William J. Wildern, IV 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).

  • Publication number: 20150350309
    Abstract: A method includes receiving an access code at a server, from a user device, via a first electronic computer communication link, and, in response to a determination indicating that the access code is a valid access code, selecting a selected content item from a plurality of available content items based on the access code, wherein selecting the selected content item includes selecting the selected content item based on whether the access code includes a content type identifier, which may be a special character, a content source identifier, or both, and transmitting information corresponding to the selected content item from the server to the user device via a second electronic computer communication link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventor: William J. Wildern, IV
  • Publication number: 20150025978
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for marketing for use with a real-time event that includes: receiving data indicative of demographic information from a plurality of users devices, each user account associated with at least one user; generating a promotional communication associated with the real-time event; receiving a plurality of responses to the promotional communication from at least some of the user devices; providing an offer to the user devices that have responded to the promotional communication; receiving a plurality of responses to the offer from at least some of the user devices; and transmitting, to a third party promoter or one or more content partners, data indicative of demographic information associated with users that have given at least a promotional communication response or an offer response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: William J. Wildern, IV, Steven J. Valentine
  • Patent number: 5605373
    Abstract: An automotive vehicle seat cushion is provided including a resilient body with a top surface and a bottom surface and a multi-dimensional bore intersecting the top and bottom surfaces, the bore having a shoulder juxtaposed between the top and bottom surfaces; a membrane cover for covering at least a portion of the top surface of the resilient body and having connected thereto a rod extending generally parallel to the top surface; and a retainer which has a base adjacent the resilient body bore shoulder, a hook extending from the base with an opening toward the resilient body bottom surface, and a guide for aligning the cover rod to a location between the guide and the hook to capture the rod and thereby retain the cover to the resilient body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: William J. Wildern, IV, Michael J. Twork, Jared E. Collinge, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5398482
    Abstract: A mechanism for skinning a membrane cover onto a polymeric foam vehicle seat body is provided which, in a preferred embodiment, includes a frame which can releasably hold front and rear ends of the cover in a generally horizontal orientation with an apex of the cover extending vertically downward, providing an opening in the cover for insertion of the seat body, a first reaction member moved by a first cylinder in a generally horizontal direction for compressing the seat cover and the seat body in a generally horizontal direction, and a bottom plate with side arms, the side arms having sheeting strip support surfaces, the bottom plate also having operatively associated sheeting strips having a first fixed end connected with the frame and a second free end placed over the sheeting strip support surface and into the cover before insertion of the seat body into the cover, and the bottom plate and side arms being connected with a pop-up cylinder for extending the seat body upward from the mechanism after insertio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph M Hessell, Jr., Robert P. Adams, Donald J. Hotton, William J. Wildern, IV, Bradley A. Johnston
  • Patent number: 5362128
    Abstract: A vehicle seat with an adjustable thigh support is provided including a vehicle seat frame, the seat frame providing support for a portion of a leg section of a vehicle occupant; a thigh support pan pivotally mounted with respect to the seat frame providing support for the portion of the leg section at a forward end of the seat frame; a main gear track projecting from the thigh support pan on a side of the thigh support pan generally opposite the leg section of a vehicle occupant, the main gear track having a toothed surface; a gear housing fixed with respect to the seat frame, the gear housing having rotatably mounted thereto a gear for meshing engagement with the main gear track toothed surface, the gear housing also having space from the gear and alignment pin for capturing the main gear track between the gear and the alignment pin; a receiving gear track pivotally mounted with respect to the thigh support pan having a toothed surface for engagement with the gear, the receiving gear track also having a han
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventor: William J. Wildern, IV