A WEB SERVER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR CONFIGURING PCT NATIONAL PHASE JURISDICTION SELECTIONS Field [1] The present invention relates to a web server implemented method for configuring PCT National Phase jurisdiction selections. The provided embodiments have been described primarily with reference for use in configuring PCT user national phase jurisdiction selections however, should be appreciated that the embodiments described herein need not necessarily be limited for application for PCT national phase jurisdictions and may be adapted for other intellectual property assets also. Summary of the Disclosure [2] According to one aspect, there is provided a web server implemented method for configuring PCT National Phase jurisdiction selections, the method comprising serving PCT patent application bibliographic data representing a plurality of PCT patent applications at a plurality of URLs; allowing indexing of the plurality of URLs by at least one search engine; receiving a referral from the least one search engine to one of the plurality of URLs; identifying a PCT patent application from the one of the plurality of URLs; receiving user national phase jurisdiction selection data representing at least one user national phase jurisdiction selection for the PCT patent application; and displaying national phase jurisdiction application data in accordance with the user national phase jurisdiction selection data. [3] Displaying national phase jurisdiction application data may comprise at least one of application fee data; and national phase deadline data. [4] The plurality of URLs may each comprise at least one PCT patent application bibliographic data attribute including at least one of a PCT patent application number, a PCT patent publication number and PCT patent application title. [5] The web server implemented method may further comprise receiving national phase jurisdiction configuration data representing at least one national phase jurisdiction configuration; and calculating a fee in accordance with the national phase jurisdiction configuration data. [6] The national phase configuration data may comprise numeric data and wherein calculating the fee comprises calculating the fee in accordance with the numeric data and threshold data. [7] Other aspects are also disclosed. Patentec Patent Attorneys Page I of 19 Level 11, 65 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia www.patentec.com.au 02 9188 9689 Brief Description of the Drawings [8] Notwithstanding any other forms which may fall within the scope of the present invention, preferred embodiments of the disclosure will now be described, by way of example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings in which: [9] Figure 1 shows a system for configuring PCT user national phase jurisdiction selection in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure; [10] Figure 2 shows a computing device for use in the system of figure 1 in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure; and [11] Figure 4 shows an exemplary search engine search results; and [12] Figures 3 and 5 to 8 show exemplary graphical user interfaces for configuring PCT user national phase jurisdiction selections in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure. Description of Embodiments [13] For the purposes of promoting an understanding of the principles in accordance with the disclosure, reference will now be made to the embodiments illustrated in the drawings and specific language will be used to describe the same. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of the scope of the disclosure is thereby intended. Any alterations and further modifications of the inventive features illustrated herein, and any additional applications of the principles of the disclosure as illustrated herein, which would normally occur to one skilled in the relevant art and having possession of this disclosure, are to be considered within the scope of the disclosure. [14] Before the systems and associated methods relating to the web server implemented method for configuring PCT National Phase jurisdiction selections are disclosed and described, it is to be understood that this disclosure is not limited to the particular configurations and process steps disclosed herein as such configurations, process steps, and materials may vary somewhat. It is also to be understood that the terminology employed herein is used for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting since the scope of the disclosure will be limited only by the claims and equivalents thereof. [15] In describing and claiming the subject matter of the disclosure, the following terminology will be used in accordance with the definitions set out below. [16] It must be noted that, as used in this specification and the appended claims, the singular forms ''a," "an," and "the" include plural referents unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. [17] As used herein, the terms "comprising," "including," "containing," "characterised by," and grammatical equivalents thereof are inclusive or open-ended terms that do not exclude additional, unrecited elements or method steps. Patentec Patent Attorneys Page 2 of 19 Level 11, 65 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia www.patentec.com.au 02 9188 9689 [18] It should be noted in the following description that like or the same reference numerals in different embodiments denote the same or similar features. System 100 of computing devices [19] Fig. 1 shows a system 100 of computing devices adapted for configuring PCT user national phase jurisdiction selections. [20] As will be described in further detail below, the system 100 is adapted to allow the serving of PCT patent application bibliographic data representing a plurality of PCT patent applications at a plurality of URLs, to allow the indexing of the plurality of URLs by at least one search engine. [21] In this manner, the system 100 is adapted to receive referrals from the at least one search engine to one of the plurality of URLs, so as to be able to identify a PCT patent application from the URL. Once a PCT patent application has been identified, the user is able to select various national phase jurisdictions for which to receive services for entering the national phase in the selected jurisdictions, including in and being able to view various national phase jurisdiction application data for the selected jurisdictions and be able to configure each selected national phase jurisdiction, including in being able to view a fee calculated in accordance with the configuration. [22] In other words, the system 100, in a preferred embodiment, is adapted for allowing users to browse to PCT patent application pages using a standard search engine so as to be able to subsequently use the PCT patent application page to configure a selection of one or more jurisdictions for entering the national phase. [23] As such, the system 100 comprises a web server 110 for serving web pages to one or more client computing devices 120 over the Internet 130. [24] In a preferred embodiment, the web server 110 is a web server having a web server application 140 for receiving requests, such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and File Transfer Protocol (FTP) requests, and serving hypertext web pages or files in response. The web server application 140 may be, for example the Apache T M or the MicrosoftTM IlS HTTP server. [25] The web server 110 is also provided with a hypertext preprocessor 150 for processing one or more web page templates 160 and data from one or more databases 170 to generate hypertext web pages. The hypertext preprocessor may, for example, be the PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) or Microsoft AspTM hypertext preprocessor. The web server 110 is also provided with web page templates 160, such as one or more PHP or ASP files. [26] Upon receiving a request from the web server application 140, the hypertext preprocessor 150 is operable to retrieve a web page template, from the web page templates 160, execute any dynamic content therein, including updating or loading information from the one or more databases 170, to Patentec Patent Attorneys Page 3 of 19 Level 11, 65 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia www.patentec.com.au 02 9188 9689 compose a hypertext web page. The composed hypertext web page may comprise client side code, such as Javascript, for Document Object Model (DOM) manipulating, asynchronous HTTP requests and the like. [27] In their particular embodiments which will be described in further detail below, the web server application 140 is adapted to serve PCT patent application data at a plurality of URLs. In this manner, upon receiving a HTTP request from the client computing device 120 for a particular URL, the web server 110 is adapted to identify a particular PCT patent application, and select, from the database 170, PCT patent application data for the selected PCT patent application. In this manner, a user may browse to the PCT patent application resource served by the web server 110, using a search engine, and thereafter, configure various user national phase jurisdiction selections for the PCT patent application. [28] As alluded to above, the database 170 is adapted for storing PCT patent application data which primarily comprises PCT bibliographic data. In this manner, the web server 110 is adapted to serve, at a plurality of URLs, PCT patent application data representing a plurality of PCT patent applications. In a preferred embodiment, the web server 140 is adapted to serve PCT patent application data for individual URLs, wherein each URL is configured for use by the web server 140 in identifying a particular PCT patent application. [29] For example, the web server 140 may be configured to serve PCT patent application data for the exemplary URL of: [30] h [31] In the above example, the URL comprises a unique PCT patent application number which is used by the hypertext preprocessor 150 to select relevant data from the database 170 for incorporation into an appropriate web page template from web page templates 160. [32] It should be noted that another embodiment, the database 170 may be adapted for storing other data over and above PCT patent application bibliographic data. For example, the database 170 may be adapted for storing national phase application data, for use in allowing users to configure various national phase selections. [33] Client computing devices 120 are provided with a browser application 180, such as the Mozilla FirefoxTM or Microsoft Internet Explorer T M browser applications. The browser application 180 requests hypertext web pages from the web server 110 and renders the hypertext web pages on a display device 1020. [34] The system 100 further comprises at least one search engine 175 such as the Google search engine. The search engine 175 is adapted to crawl the Internet, including indexing the URLs served by web server 140. In this manner, the search engine 175 is adapted to index the PCT patent application Patentec Patent Attorneys Page 4 of 19 Level 11, 65 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia www.patentec.com.au 02 9188 9689 data stored within the database 170 of the web server 110. Ideally, each PCT patent application is assigned a unique URL, such as a URL from which the web server 140 is able to uniquely identify a particular patent application, such as the above-mentioned URL comprising the PCT patent application number. In this manner, over time, the search engine 175, stores within the search engine index database 185, the plurality of patent applications stored within the database 170. In further preferred embodiment, and so as to increase search visibility and the like, the URLs corresponding to each PCT patent application within the database 170 may comprise further information over and above the PCT patent application number, such as the PCT publication number, or other bibliographic details such as a PCT title, names of inventors, abstract and the like. [35] In this manner, and as will be described in further detail below, a user may use the search engine 175 to browse for various PCT patent applications using various search terms, such as search terms comprising PCT patent application numbers, titles, inventors, applicants and the like so as to be able to browse to a particular resource served by web server 140 of the web server 110. [36] In this manner, having received a referral from search engine 175, the web server 110 is able to serve a specific PCT patent application page comprising various options and configurations allowing a user to select one or more jurisdictions for entering the national phase for the particular PCT patent application. Once selected and configured in this manner, the user's user national phase jurisdiction selection data is sent to various service providers, such as patent attorneys and the like for handling of the national phase process. Computing device [37] Fig. 2 shows a computing device 200. In a preferred embodiment, the computing device 200 takes the form of the web server 110 as described above. In this manner, the computing device 200 is adapted to comprise functionality for communication with the Internet 370, storage capability (such as the database 170) for storing user account data and the like. [38] However, it should be noted that the computing device 200 may be adapted for use as the client computing devices 120 is also shown in figure 1. In this manner, the computing device may comprise differing technical integers, such as the display device 205, human interface 255 and the like. In other words, the technical integers of the computing device 200 is shown in figure 2 are exemplary only and variations, adaptations and the like may be made thereto within the purposive scope of the embodiments described herein and having regard for the particular application of the computing device 200. [39] In particular the steps of the method for configuring PCT user national phase jurisdiction selections, as described in further detail below, may be implemented as computer program code Patentec Patent Attorneys Page 5 of 19 Level 11, 65 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia www.patentec.com.au 02 9188 9689 instructions executable by the computing device 200. The computer program code instructions may be divided into one or more computer program code instruction libraries, such as dynamic link libraries (DLL), wherein each of the libraries performs a one or more steps of the method. Additionally, a subset of the one or more of the libraries may perform graphical user interface tasks relating to the steps of the method. [40] The device 200 comprises semiconductor memory 210 comprising volatile memory such as random access memory (RAM) or read only memory (ROM). The memory 210 may comprise either RAM or ROM or a combination of RAM and ROM. [41] The device 200 comprises a computer program code storage medium reader 260 for reading the computer program code instructions from computer program code storage media to 65. The storage media to 65 may be optical media such as CD-ROM disks, magnetic media such as floppy disks and tape cassettes or flash media such as USB memory sticks. [42] The device further comprises 1/O interface 235 for communicating with one or more peripheral devices. The 1/O interface 235 may offer both serial and parallel interface connectivity. For example, the 1/O interface 235 may comprise a Small Computer System Interface (SCSI), Universal Serial Bus (USB) or similar 1/O interface for interfacing with the storage medium reader 260. The 1/O interface 235 may also communicate with one or more human input devices (HID) 255 such as keyboards, pointing devices, joysticks and the like. The 1/O interface 235 may also comprise a computer to computer interface, such as a Recommended Standard 232 (RS-232) interface, for interfacing the device 200 with one or more personal computer (PC) devices 250. The 1/O interface 235 may also comprise an audio interface for communicate audio signals to one or more audio devices 245, such as a speaker or a buzzer. [43] The device 200 also comprises a network interface 240 for communicating with one or more computer networks 270. The network 270 may be a wired network, such as a wired Ethernet network or a wireless network, such as a BluetoothTM network or IEEE 802.11 network. The network 280 may be a local area network (LAN), such as a home or office computer network, or a wide area network (WAN), such as the Internet or private WAN. [44] The device 200 comprises an arithmetic logic unit or processor 220 for performing the computer program code instructions. The processor 220 may be a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) or complex instruction set computer (CISC) processor or the like. The device 200 further comprises a storage device 230, such as a magnetic disk hard drive or a solid state disk drive. [45] Computer program code instructions may be loaded into the storage device 230 from the storage media 265 using the storage medium reader 260 or from the network 270 using network Patentec Patent Attorneys Page 6 of 19 Level 11, 65 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia www.patentec.com.au 02 9188 9689 interface 240. During the bootstrap phase, an operating system and one or more software applications are loaded from the storage device 230 into the memory 210. During the fetch-decode-execute cycle, the processor 220 fetches computer program code instructions from memory 210, decodes the instructions into machine code, executes the instructions and stores one or more intermediate results in memory 210. [46] In this manner, the instructions stored in the memory 210, when retrieved and executed by the processor 220, may configure the computing device 200 as a special-purpose machine that may perform the functions described herein. [47] The device 200 also comprises a video interface 215 for conveying video signals to a display device 205, such as a liquid crystal display (LCD), cathode-ray tube (CRT) or similar display device. [48] The device 200 also comprises a communication bus subsystem 225 for interconnecting the various devices described above. The bus subsystem 225 may offer parallel connectivity such as Industry Standard Architecture (ISA), conventional Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) and the like or serial connectivity such as PCI Express (PCIe), Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (Serial ATA) and the like. Web server implement method for configuring PCT user national phase jurisdiction selections [49] In the embodiments that follow, there will now be described an exemplary embodiment of a web server implemented method for displaying and/or configuring PCT user national phase jurisdiction selections. It should be noted that the embodiments described herein are exemplary only and that variations, additions and omissions may be made thereto without departing from the scope and spirit of the embodiments described herein. In this regard, no technical limitations should necessarily be imputed to the embodiments described herein accordingly. [50] The web server implemented method is implemented by web server 110. The method starts with the web server 110 serving PCT patent application bibliographic data representing a plurality of PCT patent applications at a plurality of URLs. In this manner, the database 170 of the web server 110 may be populated with PCT patent application bibliographic data, such as PCT patent application bibliographic data provided by a data provider, such as WIPO. Preferably, the database is populated weekly with new publication data. [51] So as to aid the indexing of the PCT patent application data, the web server 140 may be adapted to serve site maps, such as XML site maps, comprising the URL, importance and last modified date for each URL corresponding to each PCT patent application within the database 170. Patentec Patent Attorneys Page 7 of 19 Level 11, 65 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia www.patentec.com.au 02 9188 9689 [52] It should be noted that alternatively, or additionally to serving URLs corresponding to each PCT patent application, the web server 140 may be adapted to serve index URLs, such as URLs corresponding to various indexable PCT patent application bibliographic data attributes, such as patent classification, patent applicant, inventor and the like. These index URLs provide greater search engine visibility. [53] Referring now to figure 3, there is shown an exemplary graphical user interface 300 representing a page served at a URL by the web server 140. In one embodiment, this page would be served by the web server 140 and URL: [54] As can be seen from the above, the URL, comprises the PCT patent application number uniquely identifying the PCT patent application. As alluded to above, so as to increase search visibility, the URL may comprise further bibliographic data such as the title such as: [56] In this manner, the inclusion of additional but the graph data within the URL, increases search engine visibility, especially for those searching for mechanisms for internal combustion piston engines. [57] In the exemplary embodiment, the interface 300 comprises PCT patent application bibliographic data 305, such as the application number, publication number, names of the applicants, priority data, and PCT pamphlet publication data. Furthermore, the interface 300 may comprise relevant dates 310, such as the application date, publication date, and the earliest priority date. Furthermore, the interface 300 may represent various deadlines 315 such as the important 30 month and 31 month national phase deadlines. [58] The web server 140 is configured for calculating the national phase deadlines in accordance with the above-mentioned application date and earliest priority date. Should the national phase deadline dates be in the past, the interface 300 may display an appropriate warning, such as that provided in the exemplary interface 300 warning the user that the dates are in the past. [59] The interface 300 may further comprise other bibliographic details such as abstract and image data 320 and further information 325, the further information 325 assisting in search engine visibility. [60] Interface 300 further comprises a user national phase jurisdiction selection area 330 allowing the user to select the various jurisdictions for entering the national phase. In the exemplary embodiment, the user national phase jurisdiction selection area 330 comprises various flags representing the various jurisdictions available for entering the national phase. In this manner, the user need only click on the appropriate flag of the selected national phase jurisdiction to select the particular Patentec Patent Attorneys Page 8 of 19 Level 11, 65 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia www.patentec.com.au 02 9188 9689 national phase jurisdiction. The user may also input the name of the jurisdiction in the text field, wherein the web server 140 is adapted to search for matching available national phase jurisdictions. [61] Once the appropriate selections have been made, the user is able to activate the "enter the national phase" button 335 to proceed through to the national phase jurisdiction configuration pages will be described in further detail below. [62] The web server implemented method further comprises allowing indexing of the plurality of URLs by at least one search engine 175 in five. As alluded to above, the web server 140 may be adapted to serve site maps, and advertising location of such site maps within the robots.txt file. In this manner, various search engines are able to quickly ascertain the extent of the index and the relevant modification dates. [63] Now, once a least a subset of the PCT patent applications within database 170 have been indexed by the at least one search engine 175, users are able to search, using the at least one search engine 175 for various information relating to PCT patent applications. [64] Given the capabilities of modern search engines 175 in being able to identify relevant search results, the utilisation of modern search engines 175 provides advantages in identifying relevant PCT patent applications which are of interest to users in accordance with differing types of search queries. For example, user may have input the PCT patent application number in the incorrect format, or simply input the title and/or the name of the applicant, and the like, and yet still be guided to the relevant URL for the PCT patent application for selecting various national phase jurisdictions. [65] Referring now to figure 4, there is shown an exemplary screenshot of search engine results wherein a user has input the search query "PCT/US2012/070724"into the Google search engine. As is apparent, the first result within the search engine is the URL served by web server 140. [66] As such, when the user clicks on the search result, the browser application 180 browses to the resource served by web server 140 at the particular URL. Upon receipt of the HTTP request from the client computing device for the particular URL, the web server 140 is able to identify the PCT patent application corresponding to PCT patent application number "PCT/US2012/070724" and display the appropriate PCT patent application interface 300 as substantially given in figure 3. [67] In this manner, the user would review, on their display device 205, the exemplary graphical user interface 300 as is substantially given in figure 3. [68] Once having been presented with the exemplary graphical user interface 300 as substantially given in figure 3, the web server 110 is able to is adapted to receive, from the user, using the client computing device 120, selections for various jurisdictions. As alluded to above, the user is able to click Patentec Patent Attorneys Page 9 of 19 Level 11, 65 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia www.patentec.com.au 02 9188 9689 on various jurisdiction flags within the jurisdiction selection area 330, or type in a country name in order to identify a national phase jurisdiction. [69] As such, upon receipt of the user national phase jurisdiction selection data representing at least one national phase selection for the PCT patent application, the web server 140 is adapted to serve template displaying national phase jurisdiction application data in accordance with the user national phase jurisdiction selection data. [70] Referring now to figure 5, there is shown an exemplary graphical user interface 500 displaying the national phase jurisdiction application data. [71] The term "national phase jurisdiction application data" should be construed broadly and includes within its scope any information comprising information about one or more national phase jurisdictions and the like, including information such as application fee, national phase deadlines, relevant particulars for the jurisdiction (such as particular is regarding request examination and excess claim fees) and the like. [72] As such, the interface 500 comprises the representation of the selected national phase jurisdictions 525. In this example, the user has selected Canada and the United States as the national phase jurisdictions. The selected national phase jurisdictions 525 are expandable, to display national phase jurisdiction application data for each selected national phase jurisdiction as will be described in further detail below. [73] The interface 500 further comprises common national phase jurisdiction application data 515 representing application data common to all of the national phase jurisdictions. In the example, the common national phase jurisdiction application data 515 comprises information relating to whether article 19 amendments and article 30 for amendment had been performed to journey international phase, with the application remains unpublished and whether the applicant is an attorney or not. As is apparent from the example, the common national phase jurisdiction application data 505 comprises various selection options allowing the user to configure various options. For example, should article 19 amendment have been performed during the international phase, the user would tick the box adjacent article 19 amendments so that the recipient attorney would know that article 19 amendments had been performed. [74] In embodiment, and especially for article 34 amendments, upon selection of the relevant checkbox representing that article 34 amendment had been performed during the international phase, the common national phase jurisdiction application data 505 may expand to display a file control field allowing the user to upload the article 34 amendment, such as where the article 34 amendments remain unpublished. Patentec Patent Attorneys Page 10 of 19 Level 11, 65 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia www.patentec.com.au 02 9188 9689 [75] The interface 500 further comprises contact details configuration form 520 allowing the user to input contact details such as the name of the contact person, a contact email and telephone contact. [76] The interface 500 further comprises a fee calculator 505. As is apparent, the fee calculator 505 displays fees for various jurisdiction and the total for the selections. As a user configures the various application and configuration data using the interface, the fee calculator 505 adjusts to reflect the requisite fee. For example, should the user request substantive examination at the time of filing the national phase for a particular jurisdiction, the requesting examination fee, comprising both the professional fee and the official government fee, would be included within fee calculator 505. In a preferred embodiment, the fee calculator updating is performed using JavaScript so as to avoid unnecessarily delay in requesting updated fee data from the web server 110. [77] Turning now to figure 6 and 7, there is shown exemplary national phase jurisdiction application data within an exemplary interface 600 for the Canadian jurisdiction selected by the user. As alluded to above, the interface 600 would be displayed when the user clicks on the selected national phase jurisdiction 525 with an interface 500. [78] Specifically, the interface 600 represents that the national phase deadline date for the selected PCT patent application for Canada is 9 January 2010. Furthermore, the interface represents that Canada is a 30 month national phase filing country. In the example, as this date is in the past, the interface 600 comprises a warning that the data is in a past, and an invite for the user to make contact to ascertain whether or not it is still possible for late entry into the Canadian national phase. [79] The interface 600 further represents that the filing language for Canada is English or French. [80] The interface 600 further comprises a configuration and fees section. Specifically, the configuration and fees section represents that the professional service fees for entering the national phase in Canada is US$980. Furthermore, the configuration and fees section represents that the official filing fee is C$400. In a preferred embodiment, the web server 110 is configured with exchange rates, which would be updated via API from time to time, so as to allow the interface 600 to display the conversion rates. In this example, C$400 has been converted into US$361. In this manner, the web server 110 is adapted to allow the receipt of funds in a common currency for multiple jurisdictions. [81] The configuration and fees section further comprises a check box allowing the user to select whether the applicant entity is eligible for small entity status exception. Specifically, the interface 600 comprises an explanation explaining to the use of the various considerations for eligibility. Should the user select the small entity status checkbox, the fee calculator 505 would make the appropriate adjustments to the official fees accordingly. Patentec Patent Attorneys Page 11 of 19 Level 11, 65 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia www.patentec.com.au 02 9188 9689 [82] The interface 600 further comprises various options for the Canadian national phase entry. For example, the interface 600 comprises an examination section allowing the user to relevant information for the Canadian jurisdiction is to the requirements and timing for requesting examination. In another embodiment, other options may be selected at the time of filing. [83] The interface 600 further comprises a further option allowing the user to select whether or not to pay maintenance fees when entering the national phase. [84] The interface 600 further comprises general information under "other matters" comprising information relating to divisional applications. [85] Continuing now to figure 7, there is shown the remainder of the interface 600 wherein, as is apparent, the interface 600 comprises a "late entry" section comprising a full information for the user with regards to the ability to enter the national phase late within Canada. [86] Furthermore, the interface comprises an "agents" section allowing the user to nominate a preferable attorney or agent within Canada. [87] Finally, the interface comprises a "special instructions" field allowing the user to input various miscellaneous instructions. [88] Finally, the interface comprises a button allowing the user to remove Canada from the selection. [89] In certain embodiments, and for certain jurisdictions, the web server 110 may be adapted to calculate various fees in accordance with various user configurations. For example, referring to figure 8, there is shown an exemplary graphical user interface 800 allowing the user to calculated the relevant specification fees for a patent specification for the US national phase jurisdiction. Specifically, the interface 800 allows the user to configure the number of pages of the specification, the number of independent claims, the total number of claims, and whether or not the claims comprise multi dependent claims. In this manner, upon receipt of the user's selection, the fee calculator 805 is updated accordingly. [90] In the example, the fee calculator 805 represents that for the United States the fees comprise the standard service fee of US$980 and the official filing fee of US$280. However, the fee calculator 805 further comprises the variable fees and, in the example comprises $400 for the 61 pages. Specifically, in this example, the web server 110 has been configured to apply an official fee of US$400 for each 50 pages in excess of 50. In the example, as the user has input that the specification comprises 61 pages, the fee calculator is adapted to calculate that the fees relating to the number of pages is US$400. Patentec Patent Attorneys Page 12 of 19 Level 11, 65 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia www.patentec.com.au 02 9188 9689 [91] Similarly, the web server 110 has been configured to apply $420 for each independent claims in excess of three. As the user has input their being five independent claims, the fee calculated 805 comprises US$840 for the number of independent claims. [92] Similarly, the few calculator comprises US$4800 as the specification comprises 80 claims in total, being US$80 for each claim in excess of 20. And finally, the fee calculator 805 comprises an amount of US$780 on account of the patent specification comprising multi-dependent claims. [93] In this manner, the web server 110 is adapted to receive national phase jurisdiction configuration data from the user using interface 800 representing at least one national phase jurisdiction configuration and calculating the fee in accordance with the national phase jurisdiction configuration data. Specifically, the national phase configuration data comprises numeric data, such as the number of pages, multiple independent claims, number of claims and the like such that the web server 110 is adapted to calculated the fee in accordance with the numeric data and the threshold data, such as for example, where the threshold for the number of claims is 20 and the web server 110 is adapted to apply a fee for each claim in excess of 20, for each n claims in excess of 20. Patentec Patent Attorneys Page 13 of 19 Level 11, 65 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia www.patentec.com.au 02 9188 9689 Interpretation Wireless: [94] The invention may be embodied using devices conforming to other network standards and for other applications, including, for example other WLAN standards and other wireless standards. Applications that can be accommodated include IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs and links, and wireless Ethernet. [95] In the context of this document, the term "wireless" and its derivatives may be used to describe circuits, devices, systems, methods, techniques, communications channels, etc., that may communicate data through the use of modulated electromagnetic radiation through a non-solid medium. The term does not imply that the associated devices do not contain any wires, although in some embodiments they might not. In the context of this document, the term "wired" and its derivatives may be used to describe circuits, devices, systems, methods, techniques, communications channels, etc., that may communicate data through the use of modulated electromagnetic radiation through a solid medium. The term does not imply that the associated devices are coupled by electrically conductive wires. Processes: [96] Unless specifically stated otherwise, as apparent from the following discussions, it is appreciated that throughout the specification discussions utilizing terms such as "processing", "computing", "calculating", "determining", "analysing" or the like, refer to the action and/or processes of a computer or computing system, or similar electronic computing device, that manipulate and/or transform data represented as physical, such as electronic, quantities into other data similarly represented as physical quantities. Processor: [97] In a similar manner, the term "processor" may refer to any device or portion of a device that processes electronic data, e.g., from registers and/or memory to transform that electronic data into other electronic data that, e.g., may be stored in registers and/or memory. A "computer" or a "computing device" or a "computing machine" or a "computing platform" may include one or more processors. [98] The methodologies described herein are, in one embodiment, performable by one or more processors that accept computer-readable (also called machine-readable) code containing a set of instructions thatwhen executed by one or more of the processors carry out at least one of the methods described herein. Any processor capable of executing a set of instructions (sequential or otherwise) that specify actions to be taken are included. Thus, one example is a typical processing system that Patentec Patent Attorneys Page 14 of 19 Level 11, 65 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia www.patentec.com.au 02 9188 9689 includes one or more processors. The processing system further may include a memory subsystem including main RAM and/or a static RAM, and/or ROM. Computer-Readable Medium: [99] Furthermore, a computer-readable carrier medium may form, or be included in a computer program product. A computer program product can be stored on a computer usable carrier medium, the computer program product comprising a computer readable program means for causing a processor to perform a method as described herein. Networked or Multiple Processors: [100] In alternative embodiments, the one or more processors operate as a standalone device or may be connected, e.g., networked to other processor(s), in a networked deployment, the one or more processors may operate in the capacity of a server or a client machine in server-client network environment, or as a peer machine in a peer-to-peer or distributed network environment. The one or more processors may form a web appliance, a network router, switch or bridge, or any machine capable of executing a set of instructions (sequential or otherwise) that specify actions to be taken by that machine. [101] Note that while some diagram(s) only show(s) a single processor and a single memory that carries the computer-readable code, those in the art will understand that many of the components described above are included, but not explicitly shown or described in order not to obscure the inventive aspect. For example, while only a single machine is illustrated, the term "machine" shall also be taken to include any collection of machines that individually or jointly execute a set (or multiple sets) of instructions to perform any one or more of the methodologies discussed herein. Additional Embodiments: [102] Thus, one embodiment of each of the methods described herein is in the form of a computer readable carrier medium carrying a set of instructions, e.g., a computer program that are for execution on one or more processors. Thus, as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be embodied as a method, an apparatus such as a special purpose apparatus, an apparatus such as a data processing system, or a computer-readable carrier medium. The computer readable carrier medium carries computer readable code including a set of instructions that when executed on one or more processors cause a processor or processors to implement a method. Accordingly, aspects of the present invention may take the form of a method, an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, the present invention may take the form of carrier medium (e.g., a computer Patentec Patent Attorneys Page 15 of 19 Level 11, 65 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia www.patentec.com.au 02 9188 9689 program product on a computer-readable storage medium) carrying computer-readable program code embodied in the medium. Carrier Medium: [103] The software may further be transmitted or received over a network via a network interface device. While the carrier medium is shown in an example embodiment to be a single medium, the term "carrier medium" should be taken to include a single medium or multiple media (e.g., a centralized or distributed database, and/or associated caches and servers) that store the one or more sets of instructions. The term "carrier medium" shall also be taken to include any medium that is capable of storing, encoding or carrying a set of instructions for execution by one or more of the processors and that cause the one or more processors to perform any one or more of the methodologies of the present invention. A carrier medium may take many forms, including but not limited to, non-volatile media, volatile media, and transmission media. Implementation: [104] It will be understood that the steps of methods discussed are performed in one embodiment by an appropriate processor (or processors) of a processing (i.e., computer) system executing instructions (computer-readable code) stored in storage. It will also be understood that the invention is not limited to any particular implementation or programming technique and that the invention may be implemented using any appropriate techniques for implementing the functionality described herein. The invention is not limited to any particular programming language or operating system. Means For Carrying out a Method or Function [105] Furthermore, some of the embodiments are described herein as a method or combination of elements of a method that can be implemented by a processor of a processor device, computer system, or by other means of carrying out the function. Thus, a processor with the necessary instructions for carrying out such a method or element of a method forms a means for carrying out the method or element of a method. Furthermore, an element described herein of an apparatus embodiment is an example of a means for carrying out the function performed by the element for the purpose of carrying out the invention. Connected [106] Similarly, it is to be noticed that the term connected, when used in the claims, should not be interpreted as being limitative to direct connections only. Thus, the scope of the expression a device A connected to a device B should not be limited to devices or systems wherein an output of device A is directly connected to an input of device B. It means that there exists a path between an output of A Patentec Patent Attorneys Page 16 of 19 Level 11, 65 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia www.patentec.com.au 02 9188 9689 and an input of B which may be a path including other devices or means. "Connected" may mean that two or more elements are either in direct physical or electrical contact, or that two or more elements are not in direct contact with each other but yet still co-operate or interact with each other. Embodiments: [107] Reference throughout this specification to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present invention. Thus, appearances of the phrases "in one embodiment" or "in an embodiment" in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, but may. Furthermore, the particular features, structures or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner, as would be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art from this disclosure, in one or more embodiments. [108] Similarly it should be appreciated that in the above description of example embodiments of the invention, various features of the invention are sometimes grouped together in a single embodiment, figure, or description thereof for the purpose of streamlining the disclosure and aiding in the understanding of one or more of the various inventive aspects. This method of disclosure, however, is not to be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the claimed invention requires more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, as the following claims reflect, inventive aspects lie in less than all features of a single foregoing disclosed embodiment. Thus, the claims following the Detailed Description of Specific Embodiments are hereby expressly incorporated into this Detailed Description of Specific Embodiments, with each claim standing on its own as a separate embodiment of this invention. [109] Furthermore, while some embodiments described herein include some but not other features included in other embodiments, combinations of features of different embodiments are meant to be within the scope of the invention, and form different embodiments, as would be understood by those in the art. For example, in the following claims, any of the claimed embodiments can be used in any combination. Different Instances of Objects [110] As used herein, unless otherwise specified the use of the ordinal adjectives "first", "second", "third", etc., to describe a common object, merely indicate that different instances of like objects are being referred to, and are not intended to imply that the objects so described must be in a given sequence, either temporally, spatially, in ranking, or in any other manner. Patentec Patent Attorneys Page 17 of 19 Level 11, 65 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia www.patentec.com.au 02 9188 9689 Specific Details [111] In the description provided herein, numerous specific details are set forth. However, it is understood that embodiments of the invention may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known methods, structures and techniques have not been shown in detail in order not to obscure an understanding of this description. Terminology [112] In describing the preferred embodiment of the invention illustrated in the drawings, specific terminology will be resorted to for the sake of clarity. However, the invention is not intended to be limited to the specific terms so selected, and it is to be understood that each specific term includes all technical equivalents which operate in a similar manner to accomplish a similar technical purpose. Terms such as "forward", "rearward", "radially", "peripherally", "upwardly", "downwardly", and the like are used as words of convenience to provide reference points and are not to be construed as limiting terms. Comprising and Including [113] In the claims which follow and in the preceding description of the invention, except where the context requires otherwise due to express language or necessary implication, the word "comprise" or variations such as "comprises" or "comprising" are used in an inclusive sense, i.e. to specify the presence of the stated features but not to preclude the presence or addition of further features in various embodiments of the invention. [114] Any one of the terms: including or which includes or that includes as used herein is also an open term that also means including at least the elements/features that follow the term, but not excluding others. Thus, including is synonymous with and means comprising. Scope of Invention [115] Thus, while there has been described what are believed to be the preferred embodiments of the invention, those skilled in the art will recognize that other and further modifications may be made thereto without departing from the spirit of the invention, and it is intended to claim all such changes and modifications as fall within the scope of the invention. For example, any formulas given above are merely representative of procedures that may be used. Functionality may be added or deleted from the block diagrams and operations may be interchanged among functional blocks. Steps may be added or deleted to methods described within the scope of the present invention. [116] Although the invention has been described with reference to specific examples, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the invention may be embodied in many other forms. 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