Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Discount or incentive
Patent
1997-06-16
2000-03-07
Voeltz, Emanuel Todd
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Discount or incentive
705 40, G06F 1760
Patent
active
060352817
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for billing one or more participating parties for client access to the internet is disclosed including the steps of identifying at least one of the one or more participating parties as being responsible for the billing, allocating a share of the billing to each responsible participating party based on a predetermined function and computing a billing amount for each of the responsible participating parties based on a function of the share and a client bandwidth usage.
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Crosskey James P.
Mei Mark (Gee-Gwo)
Ragavan Harish
Wu Kun-Lung
Yu Philip Shi-Lung
International Business Machines - Corporation
Jordan Kevin M.
Kalinowski Alexander
Shofi David M.
Todd Voeltz Emanuel
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