Patent ID: 11913811
Assignee: COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS US CORP.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 17:
18. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code for causing at least one computer processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving, by a central computer system and from a first head end system (HES), a first raw file comprising a first set of status events in a first HES specific format;
modifying the first set of status events in the first raw file by a first HES adapter on the central computer system to create a first unified formatted file, the first unified formatted file in a unified format, the first HES adapter connected to the first HES;
transforming, by a core HES adapter on the central computer system, the first unified formatted file to a first data management formatted file according to a data management format;
consuming the first data management formatted file;
receiving, by the central computer system executing a customer information system (CIS), a second raw file comprising a plurality of usage data;
storing, by the CIS, a raw version of the plurality of usage data in a meter database;
converting, by the CIS, the plurality of usage data to the data management format;
storing, by the CIS, in the meter database, the plurality of usage data in the data management format;
framing, by the CIS, the plurality of usage data in the data management format; and
billing, by the CIS, a utility's end customers using the plurality of usage data in the data management format based at least in part on the first set of status events.