Customer-oriented telecommunications data aggregation and analysis method and object oriented system
First Claim
1. A method for analyzing telecommunications data relating to a business entity, using business entity aggregation criteria, comprising the steps of:
- (a) obtaining telecommunications provider invoices from a plurality of telecommunications providers that include telecommunications data relating to the business entity;
(b) aggregating the telecommunications data from the telecommunication provider invoices of the plurality of telecommunications providers according to business entity aggregation criteria to create an aggregated bill for the business entity;
(c) separating at least a portion of the aggregated bill into service categories;
(d) storing in a database, locations or sites of a customer'"'"'s telecommunication services, services provided by site, a list of providers of each service, and accounts used for each billing service;
(e) providing a translation table to translate each telecommunications provider codes for its telecommunications data to a standard code implemented for use in the database;
(f) checking for errors in the telecommunication provider invoices and discrepancies between the billing data and the translation data;
(g) providing forecast from the telecommunication provider invoices and combinations of consolidated telecommunication data; and
(h) including a data querying application accessible to the business entity that is capable of performing the search, selecting the desired data, or other processing of the data.
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Abstract
The present invention involves obtaining telecommunications data of a business entity from its communications vendors and providing that business entity with aggregated telecommunications data. After obtaining from multiple vendors both the detailed information of a business entity'"'"'s telecommunications assets and usage of network services and/or the accompanying costs for those assets and services, the present invention aggregates the detailed information for telecommunications asset management and analysis purposes and provides the business entity with the aggregated information, for example by database or through a network interface.
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1. A method for analyzing telecommunications data relating to a business entity, using business entity aggregation criteria, comprising the steps of:
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(a) obtaining telecommunications provider invoices from a plurality of telecommunications providers that include telecommunications data relating to the business entity; (b) aggregating the telecommunications data from the telecommunication provider invoices of the plurality of telecommunications providers according to business entity aggregation criteria to create an aggregated bill for the business entity; (c) separating at least a portion of the aggregated bill into service categories; (d) storing in a database, locations or sites of a customer'"'"'s telecommunication services, services provided by site, a list of providers of each service, and accounts used for each billing service; (e) providing a translation table to translate each telecommunications provider codes for its telecommunications data to a standard code implemented for use in the database; (f) checking for errors in the telecommunication provider invoices and discrepancies between the billing data and the translation data; (g) providing forecast from the telecommunication provider invoices and combinations of consolidated telecommunication data; and (h) including a data querying application accessible to the business entity that is capable of performing the search, selecting the desired data, or other processing of the data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A method for analyzing telecommunications data from a plurality of telecommunications providers relating to a business entity, using business entity aggregation criteria, comprising:
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(a) means for obtaining telecommunications data from telecommunication provider invoices relating to the business entity; (b) means for aggregating the telecommunications data from the telecommunication provider invoices of the telecommunications providers according to business entity aggregation criteria to create an aggregated bill for the business entity; (c) means for separating at least a portion of the aggregated bill into service categories; and (d) database means for storing locations or sites of a customer'"'"'s telecommunication services, services provided by site, a list of providers of each service, and accounts used for each billing service; (e) translation table means for translating each telecommunications provider codes for its telecommunications data to a standard code implemented for use in the database means; (f) means for checking for errors in the telecommunication provider invoices; and (g) means for providing forecast from the telecommunication provider invoices. (h) means for checking for errors in the telecommunication provider invoices and discrepancies between the billing data and the translation table data; (i) means for providing forecasts from the telecommunication provider invoices and combinations of consolidated telecommunication data; and
,(j) means for performing a data querying application accessible to the business entity that is capable of performing the search, selecting the desired data, or other processing of the data. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61)
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62. A machine-readable program storage device for storing encoded instructions for a method of analyzing telecommunications data relating to a business entity, using business entity aggregation criteria, said method comprising the steps of
(a) obtaining, telecommunications provider invoices from a plurality of telecommunications providers that include telecommunications data relating to the business entity; -
(b) aggregating the telecommunications data from the telecommunications providers according to business entity aggregation criteria to create an aggregated bill for the business entity; (c) separating at least a portion of the aggregated bill into service categories; (d) storing in a database, locations or sites of a customer'"'"'s telecommunication services, services provided by site, a list of providers of each service, and accounts used for each billing service; (e) providing a translation table to translate each telecommunications provider codes for its telecommunications data to a standard code implemented for use in the database; (f) checking for errors in the telecommunication provider invoices; and (g) providing forecast from the telecommunication provider invoices. (h) checking for errors in the telecommunication provider invoices and discrepancies between the billing data and the translation table data; (i) providing forecasts from the telecommunication provider invoices and combinations of consolidated telecommunication data; and
,(j) including a data querying application accessible to the business entity that is capable of performing the search, selecting the desired data, or other processing of the data. - View Dependent Claims (63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91)
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