发明名称 |
APPARATUS, METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR METERING AND ACCOUNTING FOR SERVICES ACCESSED OVER A NETWORK |
摘要 |
Apparatus, methods and computer programs provided for metering and accounting in a commercial e-services infrastructure address the requirement for handling composite services in which higher-level services are built using simpler underlying services, each of which may be autonomously owned and operated. Metering records for each service underlying a composite service are correlated by a process associated with the composite service, and then sent to an accounting service where they can be aggregated. The correlation is performed in a distributed manner with correlated usage data provided on a per-request basis. Accounting services can take account of the usage and charges associated with the underlying services to provide accounting and billing on a per-request basis or per customer-provider pair for a billing period.
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申请公布号 |
US2013013473(A1) |
申请公布日期 |
2013.01.10 |
申请号 |
US201213618791 |
申请日期 |
2012.09.14 |
申请人 |
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION;AGARWAL VIKAS;KARNIK NEERAN M.;KUMAR ARUN |
发明人 |
AGARWAL VIKAS;KARNIK NEERAN M.;KUMAR ARUN |
分类号 |
G06Q30/04;G06Q30/00;G06Q40/00 |
主分类号 |
G06Q30/04 |
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