Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Accounting
Reexamination Certificate
1998-11-23
2010-06-15
Nguyen, Nga B. (Department: 3684)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Accounting
C705S034000, C705S039000, C705S040000, C379S111000, C379S112030, C379S114030, C379S115030, C379S117000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07739159
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for providing an aggregated account metering system to a computer network service provider resulting in comprehensive detailed subscriber accounting records. Accounting start-stop event data is retrieved from accounting servers. The accounting records are parsed to a first adapter where they are then published on an active information bus. Network flow data is collected from routers throughout the packet switch network environment by network flow collectors. The collectors serve to aggregate and, optionally, filter the flow data. The network flow data is parsed to a second adapter where it is then published on an active information bus. An integrating accounting adapter subscribes to and collects accounting event data and network flow data and correlates this data into a detailed call record that is formatted as desired.
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Chandrupatla Sunil Kumar
Sitaraman Aravind
Thomas Leslie Alan
Cisco Technology Inc.
Nguyen Nga B.
Patent Capital Group
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