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Billing system

DC CAFC
  • US 5,287,270 A
  • Filed: 12/02/1992
  • Issued: 02/15/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/14/1989
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for presenting information concerning the actual cost of a service provided to a user by a service provider, said system comprising:

  • storage means for storing individual transaction records prepared by said service provider, said transaction records relating to individual service transactions for one or more service customers including said user, and the exact charges actually billed to said user by said service provider for each said service transaction;

    data processing means comprising respective computation hardware means and respective software programming means for directing the activities of said computation hardware means;

    means for transferring at least a part of said individual transaction records from said storage means to said data processing means;

    said data processing means generating preprocessed summary reports as specified by the user from said individual transaction records transferred from said storage means and organizing said summary reports into a format for storage, manipulation and display on a personal computer data processing means;

    means for transferring said individual transaction records including said summary reports from said data processing means to said personal computer data processing means; and

    said personal computer data processing means being adapted to perform additional processing on said individual transaction records which have been at least in part preprocessed by said data processing means utilizing said summary reports for expedited retrieval of data, to present a subset of said selected records including said exact charges actually billed to said user.

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