Patent ID: 6968320
Filing Date: 2005-11-22
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A data management apparatus to more correctly bill a customer of a reseller of telephone service, based on wholesale billing data of a telephone company and the reseller's internal billing information regarding charges of the telephone service for the customer, the system comprising: an accessor configured to access a part of the wholesale billing data, and to identify, based on a record from the telephone company, a portion of the accessed wholesale billing data for subsequent data manipulation; a generator configured to generate tabulated data from the identified portion of the accessed wholesale billing data, through data manipulation; and a comparator configured to compare the tabulated data with the reseller's internal billing information so as to correctly bill the customer; wherein the tabulated data is not in EBCDIC data format and the wholesale billing data is in EBCDIC data format; wherein the wholesale billing data can have millions of characters, with thousands of identifiers; wherein the EBCDIC data format is a mainframe computer data format; wherein only a part of the wholesale billing data is accessed and manipulated at a time to conserve memory space; and wherein less than 20% of the data accessed can be identified for subsequent data manipulation so that additional memory space is conserved.