SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRUSTED SELF-BILLING AND PAYMENT FOR UTILITIES INCLUDING AUDIT, VERIFICATION, RECONCILIATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION

摘要

A system for validating service bills includes a first monitoring subsystem associated with and under the control of a service user for determining user generated fee values associated with the amount due a service entity for service usage over a predetermined billing period. A second monitoring subsystem communicating with the first monitoring subsystem is associated wi th and under the control of the service entity for determining service generate d fee values associated with the amount due the service entity for the service usage over the predetermined billing period. One of the monitoring subsystem s compares the user and service generated fee values and thereupon validates t he amount due determined by one of the user and service generated fee values if such fee values are within a predetermined threshold amount.