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 multiprocessing platform, however, the invention is also applicable to massively parallel architectures as well as uniprocessor environments. The batch is broken into segments, wherein each segment comprises a plurality 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).