Billing system for use with document processing system

Details Billing system for use with document processing system Billing system for use with document processing system

1996-05-30

1998-04-28

Teska, Kevin J.

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

Automated electrical financial or business practice or...

Accounting

705 30, G03G 2102

Patent

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057458839

ABSTRACT:
A billing system for use in a printing system which processes a job with one or more events occurring, relative to the job, as a result of processing the job, is provided. The billing system includes a configurable billing information file including a plurality of current incrementable billing meters with each current incrementable billing meter corresponding with a set of one or more attribute values, and an information set including event related information with the event related information indicating that a new incrementable billing meter is to be added to the plurality of current incrementable billing meters or that one of the plurality of current incrementable billing meters is to be deleted. The billing system further includes a billing meter manager, responsive to the information set, for causing the new incrementable billing meter to be added to the configurable billing information file or for causing one of the plurality of current incrementable billing meters to be deleted from the configurable billing information file.

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