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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1998
R William Graham, Dayton, OH (US);
Tony Xu, San Antonio, TX (US);
David M Tumey, San Antonio, TX (US);
Other;
Abstract
A billing system for a service provider-client environment, which includes a service provider suite, a first CPU disposed at the service provider site having billing software resident on the first CPU for enabling logging of client data and service provider data. The billing software prompts a service provider to select one of a logging and no logging of time for one of a matter and a call can accrue an amount of time and associate the time with a client upon selection of the logging. The billing software manipulates the data corresponding to the amount of time and said client in a manner to produce a billing data file and accounts for crediting and debiting the billing data file. Additionally, billing software produces invoice indicia corresponding to billing data file. A printer is operably associated with said first CPU for printing an invoice having the corresponding billing data file and indicia thereon. A scanner is operably associated with said first CPU for scanning the indicia from the invoice to enable the billing software to apply a credit to the billing data file.