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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
May. 31, 2007
Jack Fine, Benicia, CA (US);
Elizabeth Deshong, San Ramon, CA (US);
Marie Jennifer Lim, San Ramon, CA (US);
Ailene Kim, Livermore, CA (US);
Euly Legro, Benicia, CA (US);
Senthil Kumar, San Ramon, CA (US);
Jack Fine, Benicia, CA (US);
Elizabeth Deshong, San Ramon, CA (US);
Marie Jennifer Lim, San Ramon, CA (US);
Ailene Kim, Livermore, CA (US);
Euly LeGro, Benicia, CA (US);
Senthil Kumar, San Ramon, CA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
A system assures revenue reconciliation of customer billing and vendor settlements for multimedia services, including voice over IP, provided through a network. The system includes a data repository configured to store a plurality of tables, each table including data collected from a plurality of network elements in the network and relating to at least one of customer usage, mediation, customer billing and vendor settlement. The system also includes a processor configured to execute an alert rule based on data retrieved from at least one table stored in the data repository. The alert rule includes a comparison between the at least one table and at least one other table of the plurality of tables. The processor triggers an alert associated with the alert rule when a corresponding alert rule threshold is exceeded based on the comparison, and initiates reporting of the triggered alert.