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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016

Filed:

Jan. 28, 2013
Applicant:

Rackspace Us, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);

Inventors:

Paul Voccio, Windcrest, TX (US);

Matthew Charles Dietz, San Antonio, TX (US);

Assignee:

Rackspace US, Inc., San Antonio, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 15/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/1403 (2013.01); H04L 12/145 (2013.01); H04L 12/1432 (2013.01); H04M 15/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and methods are provided for generating a billing feed for a distributed network system and reselling resources of the distributed network system. In one embodiment, a method includes observing a plurality of messages sent and received among components of the distributed network system, generating a call flow graph based on the plurality of messages of the distributed network system, and outputting a billing feed for the distributed network based on the call flow graph, to provide a billing feed including one or more billable events. billable events may be are based on one or more of received requests, underlying resource usage, time of usage, scope of usage. In this regard, the system may provide for one or more models of reselling resources of a distributed network system.


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