Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Accounting
Reexamination Certificate
2008-07-25
2011-11-22
Gart, Matthew S (Department: 3687)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Accounting
C726S028000, C726S029000, C726S030000, C713S320000, C713S300000, C713S340000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08065206
ABSTRACT:
A method for accounting for data processing system service usage is provided. The method comprises monitoring a total environmental consumption related to an information technology resource, determining a percentage of the information technology resource used by a customer, and determining an environmental factor corresponding to a product of the percentage of the information technology resource used by the customer with the total environmental consumption related to the information technology resource and integrating the product over a billing period. The method further comprises determining an information technology factor corresponding to a sum of a total network usage, a total storage usage, and a total processor usage for the customer over the billing period, determining a total bill for the customer according to the environmental factor and the information technology factor, and storing the total bill for the customer in a computer-readable medium.
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Gart Matthew S
Goyea Olusegun
Hewlett--Packard Development Company, L.P.
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