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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2017
Aeris Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Subramanian Balakrishnan, San Jose, CA (US);
Alpa Shah, San Jose, CA (US);
Aeris Communications, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed toward networks and more particularly to a method and system for providing information related to reconciliation billing in such networks. In one more embodiments, the computer implemented method for identifying discrepancies in billable events includes receiving application usage information regarding the one or more billable activities for one or more devices from an application provider core by a billing and analytic system; receiving cloud service usage information regarding the one or more billable activities for the one or more devices from a cloud operator providing cloud services by a billing and analytic system; comparing the received application usage information and the received cloud service usage information for one or more discrepancies in relation to one or more billable activities by a reconciliation engine; and reporting one or more identified discrepancies in accordance with the one or more billable activities.