CA2184369A1 - No-reset option in a batch billing system - Google Patents

No-reset option in a batch billing system

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CA2184369A1
CA2184369A1 CA002184369A CA2184369A CA2184369A1 CA 2184369 A1 CA2184369 A1 CA 2184369A1 CA 002184369 A CA002184369 A CA 002184369A CA 2184369 A CA2184369 A CA 2184369A CA 2184369 A1 CA2184369 A1 CA 2184369A1
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event
discrete
segment
billing system
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Michael S. Peters
Clayton Walter Holt
David J. Arnold, Jr.
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Teleflex Information Systems Inc
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Michael S. Peters
Clayton Walter Holt
David J. Arnold, Jr.
Teleflex Information Systems, Inc.
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F9/00—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units
    • G06F9/06—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units using stored programs, i.e. using an internal store of processing equipment to receive or retain programs
    • G06F9/46—Multiprogramming arrangements
    • G06F9/50—Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]
    • G06F9/5061—Partitioning or combining of resources
    • G06F9/5072—Grid computing
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F9/00—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units
    • G06F9/06—Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units using stored programs, i.e. using an internal store of processing equipment to receive or retain programs
    • G06F9/46—Multiprogramming arrangements
    • G06F9/50—Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU]
    • G06F9/5005—Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU] to service a request
    • G06F9/5027—Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU] to service a request the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G06Q30/00—Commerce
    • G06Q30/04—Billing or invoicing
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F2209/00—Indexing scheme relating to G06F9/00
    • G06F2209/50—Indexing scheme relating to G06F9/50
    • G06F2209/5017—Task decomposition

Abstract

A system and method for processing a batch which is distributed into a plurality of independent segments. A preferred embodiment of this invention calls for implementation on a symmetrical multipro-cessing platform, however, the invention is also ap-plicable to massively parallel, architectures as well as uniprocessor environments. The batch is broken into segments, wherein each segment comprises a plural-ity of discrete events, each discrete event comprising a plurality of sub-events to be processed (steps 502-510). The system operates to process each discrete event within each segment sequentially and each sub-event within each discrete event sequentially. The system and method provide for the reprocessing of a failed segment without requiring reprocessing of the entire batch (steps 518, 800, 802).
CA002184369A 1994-02-28 1995-02-23 No-reset option in a batch billing system Expired - Lifetime CA2184369C (en)

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US20319194A 1994-02-28 1994-02-28
US08/203,191 1994-02-28
US22960994A 1994-04-19 1994-04-19
US08/229,609 1994-04-19
US08/377,610 1995-01-25
US08/377,610 US5999916A (en) 1994-02-28 1995-01-25 No-reset option in a batch billing system
PCT/US1995/002229 WO1995023373A1 (en) 1994-02-28 1995-02-23 No-reset option in a batch billing system

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