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2002-12-16

2010-02-16

Hayes, John W (Department: 3628)

Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co

For cost/price

Utility usage

Reexamination Certificate

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07664711

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus, methods and computer programs provided for metering and accounting in a commercial e-services infrastructure address the requirement for handling composite services in which higher-level services are built using simpler underlying services, each of which may be autonomously owned and operated. Metering records for each service underlying a composite service are correlated, enabling accounting which takes account of the usage and charges associated with the underlying services, on a per-request basis or on an aggregated basis for each customer-provider pair over a given billing period.

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