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

Claim 9:
10. A system comprising:
a meter database; and
at least one computer processor comprising instructions for causing the at least one computer processor to perform operations, the 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 the 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.