Patent ID: 11949523
Assignee: LENOVO GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY (UNITED STATES) INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 19:
20. A program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing code, the code being configured to be executable by a processor to perform operations comprising:
receiving, at an owner server on a periodic basis, storage utilization data, the storage utilization data comprising one or more measurements of data storage usage for data storage at a customer location of a customer, the customer location remote from the owner server;
calculating, from the storage utilization data, average storage utilization data comprising an average of the storage utilization data from the customer location for a billing period;
calculating billing information for the average storage utilization data for the billing period, the billing information calculated from the average storage utilization data and a calculated storage billing rate; and
providing, to the customer, access to the billing information.