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U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Illinois (June 30)(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Targeted News Service Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Illinois. *** Caterpillar Assigned Patent for Torque Estimator for a Machine ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Caterpillar, Peoria, Ill., has been assigned a patent (7,970,523) developed by five co-inventors for a "torque estimator for a machine." The co-inventors are Michael James Wallis, Washington, Ill., Paul Alan Ring, Dunlap, Ill., Giles Kent Sorrells, Metamora, Ill., Conrad Gene Grembowicz, Peoria, Ill., and Jason Edward Carter, Morton, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A torque estimator is disclosed for estimating torque on a machine. A computer system may include a torque estimator module located on the machine. The torque estimator module may be configured to receive a plurality of engine parameters, receive a drivetrain component parameter, determine an estimated torque value at the drivetrain component based on the plurality of engine parameters and the drivetrain component parameter. The computer system also may include an analysis module located on the machine. The analysis module may be configured to receive the estimated torque value and the drivetrain component parameter, and update a histogram data structure based on the estimated torque value and the drivetrain component parameter. The analysis module may also be configured to evaluate the histogram data structure in order to determine if excessive torque is being applied to a drivetrain component." The patent application was filed on April 28, 2006 (11/413,187). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,970,523.PN.&OS=PN/7,970,523&RS=PN/7,970,523 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Caterpillar Assigned Patent for Method and System for Keyless Machine Operation ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Caterpillar, Peoria, Ill., has been assigned a patent (7,970,518) developed by John Jay Bernardi, Chillicothe, Ill., and Kevin Dee Ehrenhardt, Eureka, Ill., for a "method and system for keyless machine operation." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The keyless power system has an ignition system including an ignition switch having an "OFF" position and one or more electrical components associated with a work machine. The keyless power system also has one or more alternate power sources configured to provide electrical power to the one or more electrical components. The keyless power system also has a controller configured to determine a power-level requirement of the one or more electrical components and activate at least one of the one or more alternate power sources to at least partially satisfy the power-level requirement based on whether the ignition switch is in the "OFF" position." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2005 (11/313,739). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,970,518.PN.&OS=PN/7,970,518&RS=PN/7,970,518 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Caterpillar Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29 -- Caterpillar, Peoria, Ill., has been assigned a patent (7,970,526) developed by Dan Ibrahim, Metamora, Ill., for an "intensifier quill for fuel injector and fuel system using same." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An intensifier quill for a fuel injector fluidly connects a fuel injector to a common rail. The intensifier quill selectively supplies fuel to the fuel injector at either an intensified pressure or un-intensified common rail pressure. Fuel supplied by the quill at both the intensified and un-intensified pressure passes through a quill body, which includes an actuation chamber, a control chamber and a pressurization chamber. Energizing an actuator of the quill allows fuel from the control chamber to flow to drain, increasing pressure inside the pressurization chamber and the fuel injector to intensified pressure. Upon energizing the actuator of the fuel injector, fuel injector injects fuel at the intensified pressure. When the quill's actuator is de-energized and the fuel injector's actuator is energized, fuel injector injects fuel at the un-intensified pressure." The patent application was filed on Jan. 5, 2009 (12/319,250). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,970,526.PN.&OS=PN/7,970,526&RS=PN/7,970,526 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Motorola Mobility Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Motorola Mobility, Libertyville, Ill., has been assigned a patent (7,970,350) developed by four co-inventors for "devices and methods for content sharing." The co-inventors are Arnold Sheynman, Northbrook, Ill., Daniel R. Muehl, Poplar Grove, Ill., Yingchun Ran, Winchester, Mass., and Jun Tian, Grayslake, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Described are methods and devices for automatically coupling two or more mobile communication devices (502, 541) to share content such as calls, music, documents, video and games where two or more devices automatically determine the feasibility of sharing the content and negotiate to find an efficient manner in which to do so. In this way, the pairing between devices may be transparent to the users. Moreover, a better choice in a transport may be selected without user input. Each device may include a near field communication (NFC) device that when in range of the other device may automatically initiate pairing between the devices so that the devices may share content. The users of NFC enabled devices may have little or minimal interactions except that one or more users may bring the devices within range so that the NFCs may initiate the pairing between the devices." The patent application was filed on Oct. 31, 2007 (11/930,310). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=79,70,350&OS=79,70,350&RS=79,70,350 Written by Rajat Puri; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Cisco Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Cisco Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,970,401) developed by Steven R. Donovan, Plano, Texas, and David A. Ladd, Lisle, Ill., for an "associating a handoff address to a communication session." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method for associating a handoff address to a communication session includes determining one or more communication sessions are established in a first network. Each of one or more handoff addresses is associated with each of the one or more communication sessions. Associating each of the one or more handoff addresses is according to a temporal order of establishment of the one or more communication sessions." The patent application was filed on July 5, 2006 (11/428,671). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,970,401.PN.&OS=PN/7,970,401&RS=PN/7,970,401 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Alcatel-Lucent USA Assigned Patent for Method and Apparatus for Provisioning and Authentication/Registration for Femtocell User on IMS Core Network ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Alcatel-Lucent USA, Murray Hill, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,970,398) developed by Maria E. Palamara, Denville, N.J., and Robin Jeffrey Thompson, Batavia, Ill., for a "method and apparatus for provisioning and authentication/registration for femtocell user on IMS core network." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for provisioning, registering and authenticating a mobile phone on a basestation is provided. The method includes receiving an addition request for the addition of a mobile station to a basestation authorization record via an interface. The method continues with creating an entry for the mobile station, where the entry includes mobile station information, and receiving a registration request including request information from the mobile station to register to receive basestation based services via the associated internet multimedia subsystem network. The method also includes authorizing registration on the IMS network based at least in part on the request information." The patent application was filed on June 25, 2007 (11/767,722). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,970,398.PN.&OS=PN/7,970,398&RS=PN/7,970,398 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Motorola Solutions Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Motorola Solutions, Schaumburg, Ill., has been assigned a patent (7,970,430) developed by eight co-inventors for a "method and apparatus for setting and managing operational dynamics within cognitive radio networks." The co-inventors are Charles A. Backof, Jr., Boca Raton, Fla., Steven D. Bromley, Concord, Mass., John D. Bruner, South Barrington, Ill., Lawrence M. Ecklund, Wheaton, Ill., Steven F. Gillig, Roselle, Ill., John K. Grosspietsch, Libertyville, Ill., Whay Chiou Lee, Cambridge, Mass., and Scott E. Preece, Champaign, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In certain embodiments, a method for managing operational parameters of a cognitive radio device to minimize non-compliance with a regulatory policy involves sensing a change in an operational condition that will affect compliance with a current operational policy; estimating a time at which the current operational policy will become invalid; selecting a method for determining how to update the current operational policy; and updating the current operational policy of the cognitive radio device. Other embodiments may incorporate more, fewer or other elements." The patent application was filed on Dec. 21, 2006 (11/614,403). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,970,430.PN.&OS=PN/7,970,430&RS=PN/7,970,430 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Motorola Solutions Assigned Patent for Method of Assigning Provisional Identification to a Subscriber Unit and Group ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Motorola Solutions, Schaumburg, Ill., has been assigned a patent (7,970,426) developed by Brian R. Poe, Cary, Ill., John W. Maher, Woodstock, Ill., and Daniel J. McDonald, Cary, Ill., for a "method of assigning provisional identification to a subscriber unit and group." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "The present disclosure provides an efficient and effective method for allocating provisional PUIDs and PGIDs to subscriber units and groups during a failure, such that when the communication system recovers, there is a decrease in or elimination of the number of dropped or missed communications. The present disclosure reserves a range of provisional PUIDs and PGIDs for resource controllers operating in a region of system failure to assign when subscriber units roam into the region of failure in the communication system. The present disclosure addresses creating PUID and PGID ranges for resource controllers to assign to roaming subscriber units in order to allow for assignment of PUIDs and PGIDs during periods of subsystem isolation and site trunking, i.e., when the particular site or subsystem cannot communicate with the rest of the communication system. The present disclosure also addresses recovering from these situations, re-registration, and reallocation of PUIDs and PGIDs." The patent application was filed on Sept. 10, 2008 (12/207,948). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,970,426.PN.&OS=PN/7,970,426&RS=PN/7,970,426 Written by Anjali Jha; edited by Jaya Anand. *** OpinionLab Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- OpinionLab, Highland Park, Ill., has been assigned a patent (7,970,887) developed by four co-inventors for "measuring a page-specific subjective user reaction concerning each of multiple web pages of a website." The co-inventors are Rand B. Nickerson, Highland Park, Ill., Mark A. Treschl, Highland Park, Ill., Kathryn L. Kidd, Rockville, Md., and Matthew J. Crofoot, Chicago. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for measuring user feedback concerning a particular web page of a website includes a first icon. The first icon is viewable on the particular web page independent of input from a user subsequent to the user accessing the particular web page. The first icon solicits user feedback concerning the particular web page as a whole from the user independent of input from the user subsequent to the user accessing the particular web page. The first icon receives user input indicating a desire to provide user feedback concerning the particular web page as a whole, and the user input causes a second icon to become viewable on the particular web page for providing the user feedback concerning the particular web page as a whole. Software associated with the second icon receives the user feedback concerning the particular web page as a whole for reporting to a website owner." The patent application was filed on May 1, 2002 (10/136,919). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,970,887&OS=7,970,887&RS=7,970,887 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Accenture Global Services Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Accenture Global Services, Dublin, Ireland, has been assigned a patent (7,970,767) developed by five co-inventors for "extraction of attributes and values from natural language documents." The co-inventors are Katharina Probst, Dyer, Ind., Rayid Ghani, Chicago, Andrew E. Fano, Lincolnshire, Ill., Marko Krema, Evanston, Ill., and Yan Liu, New York City, N.Y. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "One or more classification algorithms are applied to at least one natural language document in order to extract both attributes and values of a given product. Supervised classification algorithms, semi-supervised classification algorithms, unsupervised classification algorithms or combinations of such classification algorithms may be employed for this purpose. The at least one natural language document may be obtained via a public communication network. Two or more attributes (or two or more values) thus identified may be merged to form one or more attribute phrases or value phrases. Once attributes and values have been extracted in this manner, association or linking operations may be performed to establish attribute-value pairs that are descriptive of the product. In a presently preferred embodiment, an (unsupervised) algorithm is used to generate seed attributes and values which can then support a supervised or semi-supervised classification algorithm." The patent application was filed on April 30, 2007 (11/742,244). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,970,767&OS=7,970,767&RS=7,970,767 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** International Business Machines Assigned Patent for Generalized Partition Pruning in a Database System ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,970,756) developed by Thomas Abel Beavin, Milpitas, Calif., Sauraj Goswami, Palo Alto, Calif., and Terence Patrick Purcell, New Berlin, Ill., for a "generalized partition pruning in a database system." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system for executing a query on data that has been partitioned into a plurality of partitions is provided. The system includes providing partitioned data including one or more columns and the plurality of partitions. The partitioned data includes a limit key value associated with each column for a given partition. The system further includes receiving a query including a predicate on one of the one or more columns of the partitioned data; and utilizing the predicate on the one of the one or more columns in a pruning decision on at least one of the one or more partitions based on the limit key values associated with the plurality of partitions." The patent application was filed on Nov. 10, 2008 (12/268,391). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,970,756&OS=7,970,756&RS=7,970,756 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** NAVTEQ North America Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- NAVTEQ North America, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (7,970,749) developed by four co-inventors for a "method and system for using geographic data in computer game development." The co-inventors are Kurt Brooks Uhlir, Chicago, Christopher Dougherty, Highland Park, Ill., Michael V. Shuman, Chicago, and Roy Casino, Mundelein, Ill. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are disclosed for facilitating development of computer games that depict or represent actual, real world geographic areas as part of the play scenarios of the games. A source database contains data that represent geographic features in a region including roads in the region. The data in the source database includes attributes suitable for use for providing navigation-related functions. In addition to providing data from the source database for navigation-related functions, data from the source database are also provided for computer game development. An application programming interface, as well as other tools for handling geographic data, is provided for accessing and processing of the geographic data." The patent application was filed on March 11, 2004 (10/798,459). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,970,749&OS=7,970,749&RS=7,970,749 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** General Electric Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- General Electric, Schenectady, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,970,188) developed by Prakash Mahesh, Hoffman Estates, Ill., Mark Morita, Arlington Heights, Ill., and Murali Kumaran Kariathungal, Hoffman Estates, Ill., for "systems and methods for automatic routing and prioritization of exams based on image classification." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for automatic prioritization and routing of exams for patients in a medical center based on image classification. The method includes capturing an image and digitizing it, automatically classifying the image based on its content, prioritizing the image based on its classification, and routing the image based on its prioritization and classification to the appropriate medical practitioner." The patent application was filed on Nov. 22, 2006 (11/562,826). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,970,188.PN.&OS=PN/7,970,188&RS=PN/7,970,188 Written by Ankita Das; edited by Jaya Anand. *** Computer Associates Think Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Computer Associates Think, Islandia, N.Y., has been assigned a patent (7,970,801) developed by Bruce A. Defrang, Batavia, Ill., Patrick R. Lee, Bolingbrook, Ill., and Gregory L. Bodine, Cary, N.C., for a "data packaging system and method." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for communicating data includes selecting a portion of data for communication to a remote computer with the data portion in device-dependent format and comprising at least an integer, a real number, or a binary value. A portable buffer is generated based on the selected data portion, the portable buffer comprising at least one device-independent data representation. The portable buffer is communicated to the remote computer for processing the data portion in a second device-dependent format." The patent application was filed on Jan. 21, 2005 (11/040,146). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,970,801&OS=7,970,801&RS=7,970,801 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Amazon Technologies Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Amazon Technologies, Reno, Nev., has been assigned a patent (7,970,773) developed by seven co-inventors for a "determining variation sets among product descriptions." The co-inventors are Srikanth Thirumalai, Clyde Hill, Wash., Aswath Manoharan, Bellevue, Wash., Xiaoxin Yin, Urbana, Ill., Mark J. Tomko, Seattle, Grant M. Emery, Seattle, Vijai Mohan, Bellevue, Wash., and Egidio Terra, Porto Alegre, Brazil. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Systems and methods for determining a set of variation-phrases from a collection of documents in a document corpus is presented. Potential variation-phrase pairs among the various documents in the document corpus are identified. The identified potential variation-phrase pairs are then added to a variation-phrase set. The potential variation-phrase pairs in the variation-phrase set are filtered to remove those potential variation-phrase pairs that do not satisfy a predetermined criteria. After filtering the variation-phrase set, the resulting variation-phrase set is stored in a data store." The patent application was filed on Sept. 27, 2007 (11/863,020). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,970,773&OS=7,970,773&RS=7,970,773 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. *** Trading Technologies International Assigned Patent for Method, Apparatus and Interface for Transaction Toggling ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Trading Technologies International, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (7,970,696) developed by Michael J. Burns, Chicago, and Joan Ebersole, Glen Ellyn, Ill., for a "method, apparatus and interface for transaction toggling." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for submitting transactions from an automated trading tool to an electronic exchange. The method includes defining a proximity limit and automatically generating a transaction for a tradeable object. The method further includes applying the proximity limit to the transaction. When the transaction falls within the defined proximity limit, the transaction is submitted to the exchange. An apparatus and interface for transaction toggling based on proximity limits are also provided." The patent application was filed on Oct. 28, 2010 (12/914,231). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7970696.PN.&OS=PN/7970696&RS=PN/7970696 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Trading Technologies International Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Trading Technologies International, Chicago, has been assigned a patent (7,970,697) developed by Stephen A. Schwarz, Chicago, and Michael J. Burns, Chicago, for a "system and method for providing market updates in an electronic trading environment." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method are provided for modifying how market updates are provided in an electronic trading environment upon detecting one or more triggering events. One example method includes defining an event to be used to trigger modification of how market updates are provided to a client entity, receiving a market update from an electronic exchange, and, when the event is detected, modifying how the market update is provided to the client entity. As an example, the modification of how the market update is provided to the client entity may include providing less data in relation to market updates, and sending the market updates less frequently." The patent application was filed on Dec. 22, 2010 (12/977,020). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7970697.PN.&OS=PN/7970697&RS=PN/7970697 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Freeman Capital Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Freeman Capital, Las Vegas, has been assigned a patent (7,970,641) developed by four co-inventors for an "automated bundle package pricing." The co-inventors are Dan Steenstrup, Chicago, Colleen Wright, Chicago Heights, Ill., Marion Miljevic, Chicago, and Peter Wigren, Chicago. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An automated system and method for pricing a bundle package based on a weight of a bundle includes an interface, a point of entry and a processor. The interface requests information and displays information. Data relating to the requested information is submitted through the point of entry. The requested information includes dimensions of a booth and a weight of a bundle to be displayed within the booth. The processor receives and controls the data and includes a rules database, a transaction processing system and a calculator. The rules database stores a pre-established set of rules for classifying data into one of a plurality of bundle packages and for associating the bundle packages with a price. The transaction processing system stores and analyzes the submitted data and the pre-established set of rules in the rules database. The calculator determines a bundle package price based on the submitted data and the pre-established rules in the rules database." The patent application was filed on May 1, 2009 (12/434,273). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7970641.PN.&OS=PN/7970641&RS=PN/7970641 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. *** Align Technology Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 30 -- Align Technology, San Jose, Calif., has been assigned a patent (7,970,628) developed by five co-inventors for a "method and system for providing dynamic orthodontic assessment and treatment profiles." The co-inventors are Eric Kuo, Foster City, Calif., Douglas C. Bukaty, Lake Forest, Ill., Mitra Derakhshan, Fremont, Calif., Chandra Swaminathan, Fremont, Calif., and Paul Kimball, San Jose, Calif. The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Method and system for receiving one or more dentition conditions of a patient, associating a first set of one or more treatment goals based on the one or more dentition conditions, generating a case difficulty assessment based on the one or more treatment goals, detecting a modification to the case difficulty assessment, retrieving a second set of one or more treatment goals associated with the modified case difficulty assessment, and displaying the second set of one or more treatment goals are provided." The patent application was filed on Oct. 13, 2006 (11/580,536). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7970628.PN.&OS=PN/7970628&RS=PN/7970628 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. 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