Invention Grant
- Patent Title: De-duplication in billing system
- Patent Title (中): 计费系统中的重复数据删除
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Application No.: US12785313Application Date: 2010-05-21
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Publication No.: US08380736B2Publication Date: 2013-02-19
- Inventor: Malcolm Erik Pearson , Matthew Charles Setzer
- Applicant: Malcolm Erik Pearson , Matthew Charles Setzer
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Workman Nydegger
- Main IPC: G06F7/00
- IPC: G06F7/00 ; G06F17/30

Abstract:
Scalable handling of billing events that affect one or more accounts. A computing system partitions received events into a number of channels, perhaps by account identifier. The channels receive the events, and perform de-duplication of the events. This de-duplication may be performed using a Bloom filter that is updated to reflect the receipt of any original event. The Bloom filter may be used to either determine that the event is not a duplicate of another, or to determine that the event cannot be ruled out as being a duplicate of another. In the latter case, further processing may be performed to for definitively determine whether the event is truly a duplication, or in the alternative, the event may be immediately treated as a duplicate.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110289102A1 DE-DUPLICATION IN BILLING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2011-11-24
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