摘要 |
<p>A computer system and method for processing bills for a plurality of node systems (28) with a larger system (10), each customer bill having a particular billing cycle, comprises a memory for storing a plurality of customer records containing raw data to be processed to generate a customer bill. The system also comprises a bill production initiator (402) for waking up periodically and initiating a billing cycle for a plurality of the customer bill records stored in memory. At least one bill production manager (404) generates a plurality of processing group files containing at least one of the customer bill records stored in the memory such that each processing group file has an efficient size and contains customer bill records having at least one common variable. At least one bill production worker processes the customer bill records from at least one of the processing groups.</p> |