William Christopher
William Christopher Draper, Jr., New York, NY US
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20100205027 | Business Driven Learning Solution Particularly Suitable for Sales-Oriented Organizations - Disclosed is a business driven learning solution and related methods for managing the learning and training needs of a sales-oriented organization in a manner that is responsive to dynamic business needs. The invention employs modules of interrelated and interdependent business processes for the identification and prioritization of learning needs, the selection of learning approaches, the development of learning content, the coordination and delivery of learning instruction, and the overall management and administration learning efforts. Embodiments of the inventions disclosed include sales training objects to provide a template for sales training that is focused on a solution, and how to position and sell the solution, rather than on the products that make up the solution. As a result, the sales force is educated, understands the customers' business requirements, and is able to craft specific value propositions to a given customer with respect to that solution. Thus, the training is customer-centric as opposed to product-centric. | 08-12-2010 |
William Christopher Hundson, Tustin, CA US
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20080277347 | SAMPLE PREPARATION DEVICE AND METHOD UTILIZING POLYAMIDE TUBE - Polyamide sample preparation tubes with a hollow polyamide tube and an extraction medium contained within the tube are utilized in the sample preparation devices. The sample preparation tubes are substantially inert and show little tendency to dissolve or leach contaminants into nonaqueous liquids. The polyamide tubes may be used in preparing samples for analytical procedures such as GC, GC/MS, LC or LC/MS. | 11-13-2008 |
William Christopher Kidd Iii, Durham, NC US
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20080289624 | Aerosol Canister Employing a Polymeric Film Having Improved Moisture Barrier Properties - A metered dose inhaler for delivering a pharmaceutical aerosol formulation comprises a canister containing the pharmaceutical aerosol formulation therein; a ferrule attached to said canister, the ferrule comprising a valve body having at least one opening therein to allow a quantity of the pharmaceutical aerosol formulation to pass from the container into the valve; and a polymeric film positioned between the ferrule and the canister, the polymeric film being present so as to serve as a moisture barrier relative to said canister. | 11-27-2008 |
William Christopher Lotterhos, Collierville, TN US
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20090071034 | SOLE ATTACHMENT FOR FOOTWEAR - A sole device or attachment for shoes, boots, athletic shoes, and similar footwear. The device comprises an undershoe attachment made of a lightweight material, including but not limited to rubber or foam, or a combination thereof. The device may come in various sizes to correspond to footwear sizes currently known, and may be of larger size than the corresponding footwear. The device may be attached to the sole of footwear directly by operation of spikes on the bottom of the footwear, or may be secured by one or more straps that extend across the footwear, or some combination thereof. | 03-19-2009 |
20110168719 | LID WITH COMPARTMENT - A lid with a compartment for housing a breath mint, pill, toothpick, or similar item. The lid may comprise a standard lid of various sizes and configurations as is known in the art, such as for a cup for coffee, tea, soda, or other food item, solid or liquid. The compartment or indentation may be open or closed, such as with a flap. If open, the indentation may be sized to securely hold a mint or other item until removed by the user. If a flap or similar cover is used, it may have a ridge, tab, protrusion or corner that the user can use to lift the flap or cover and expose the mint or other item. The indentation or compartment may be square, circular, oval, triangular, or other polygonal form. The flap or cover may be perforated for tearing off. | 07-14-2011 |
William Christopher Lotterhos, Spring Hill, TN US
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20090157015 | Apparatus and method of applying sunscreen or similar liquid - A central body or device adapted to take payment in a variety of means and dispense sunscreen, insect repellant, hand sanitizers, or similar lotions, gels, or liquids. The sunscreen (or similar lotion, gel or liquid) may be dispensed in foil packets, plastic bladders, gel packs, or similar containers, or may be dispensed directly, such as through a spray attachment. The device may be unpowered, or powered by a battery, solar panel, or electrical power supply. The device may accept payment in a variety of forms: coins, bills, credit or debit cards, a hotel or resort access or room card, or the like. It may be mounted on a wall or vertical flat surface, or mounted on a pole or stand. | 06-18-2009 |
William Christopher Stirlen, Sandy, UT US
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20090063204 | Seat Routine Equipment Model - The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a process that includes defining software travel objects that are configurable to represent a variety of types of accommodations used in transportation of passengers, associating the software travel objects with configurable properties that specify accommodation attributes that affect a passenger's experience during travel, and receiving, through a user interface, information used to customize the configurable properties during run-time of a software application that manages travel reservations for accommodations. The process also includes outputting the customized configurable properties for use by a user in a selection of one or more of the accommodations during a travel reservation. | 03-05-2009 |
20090240679 | Selecting Accommodations on a Travel Conveyance - The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a process that includes receiving digital accommodation criteria for an accommodation assignment requested for a passenger and accessing accommodation properties that specify characteristics of accommodations offered on a travel conveyance. A first portion of the accommodation properties are base properties and a second portion of the accommodation properties are derivation properties derived from the base properties during execution of a software program configured to access the accommodation properties. The process also includes assigning weights to the accommodation properties based on a comparison between the accommodation properties and the received accommodation criteria. The process includes determining total weighting scores for each of one or more of the accommodations based on an aggregation of the assigned weights for the accommodation properties associated with the accommodation and outputting the requested accommodation assignment. | 09-24-2009 |
20140310032 | Seat Routine Processes - The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a process that includes selecting accommodations during a travel reservation is described. The method includes receiving, at a software application that manages travel reservations, input that customizes configurable attributes of software travel objects representing accommodations used in transportation of passengers. The method also includes receiving criteria from a customer specifying preferences that affect a passenger's experience during travel, ranking the received criteria so that one or more criterion are preferred, selecting one or more of the accommodations using an optimization function to compare the ranked criteria to the customized configurable attributes, and outputting the selected one or more accommodations for use by the customer in selecting a first accommodation for the passenger. | 10-16-2014 |
William Christopher Trego, Berkley, MI US
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20150336464 | ULTRASONIC LOCATION FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING SYSTEM - A charging system for charging a vehicle includes a charging station and a vehicle. The charging station includes a wireless charging coil, at least one ultrasonic sensor oriented to detect a vehicle proximate the coil, and a first wireless communication device. The vehicle includes a charge plate, a second wireless communications device in communication with the first wireless communication device, an in-vehicle display, and at least one controller. The controller is configured to present positional information via the display. The positional information corresponds to a vehicle position detected by the at least one sensor and transmitted via the first and second wireless communications devices. | 11-26-2015 |