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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2002
Filed:
May. 04, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Derek M. Young, Brookline, MA (US);
Assignee:
Metratech, Waltham, MS (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/760 ; G06F 1/580 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/760 ; G06F 1/580 ;
Abstract
For communication services, a metering and processing system for processing metered information incorporates configurable processing modules and a configuration manager. The system can by readily and flexibly configured, responsive to operator directions, to process metered information to meet the needs of data consumers, such as NSPs and ISPs. Each processing module performs a specific sub-part of a computation on the metered information, and the configuration manager generates a configuration file for specifying the order of operation, computation sub-part, and other operational parameters for the individual processing modules.