NO-RESET OPTION IN A BATCH BILLING SYSTEM

摘要

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).