Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Platform-as-a-service billing
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Application No.: US13693985Application Date: 2012-12-04
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Publication No.: US09824343B2Publication Date: 2017-11-21
- Inventor: Timothy J. Thompson
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Lee Law, PLLC
- Agent Christopher B. Lee
- Main IPC: G06Q30/04
- IPC: G06Q30/04 ; G06Q20/14 ; G06Q10/10 ; G06Q10/06

Abstract:
An illustrative embodiment of a process for reconciling billing measures to cost factors, comprising receiving, by one or more processors, a set of billing measures from one or more applications and a set of cost factors from infrastructure feeds. Analyzing the set of billing measures and cost factors received, using a set of defined relationships to create analyzed information and generates, by the one or more processors, a set of reports using the analyzed information. Responsive to a determination to update the set of definitions, update the sets of definitions using information from the generated reports.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140156477A1 PLATFORM-AS-A-SERVICE BILLING Public/Granted day:2014-06-05
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