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1. A billing system comprising:
a master work scheduler configured to maintain information about boundary groups available for processing and assign boundary groups for work scheduling; a plurality of work scheduling nodes, each of the work scheduling nodes being configured to receive an assigned boundary group from the master work scheduler and schedule work for the assigned boundary group; a plurality of billing processing nodes, each of the billing processing nodes being configured to maintain information about accounts locked for processing by the billing processing node, process a particular piece of billing work assigned by the work scheduling node, and self-schedule additional billing work. |
