Patent ID: 7945489
Filing Date: 2011-05-17
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of handling revenue allocation for service orders, the method comprising: identifying a first group of multiple different service receivers that are projected to be responsible to pay for projected services as part of a service order; creating, in a service order application computer system, (i) an electronic record for the service order in which the identified first group of multiple different service receivers are projected to be responsible to pay for projected services as part of the service order and (ii) planned allocation rules for allocation of expected revenues to be received as payment for the projected services from each service receiver of the first group of multiple different service receivers, and forwarding in electronic form the planned allocation rules to a cost accounting system; after receipt of an electronic confirmation in a service execution computer system that the service order has been executed, determining a second group of multiple different service receivers that are each responsible for at least a portion of actual services performed as part of the service order being executed, wherein the first group of service receivers differs from the second group of service receivers in that (i) one or more projected service receivers of the first group is not an actual service receiver in the second group, or (ii) one or more actual service receivers in the second group is not a projected service receiver in the first group; receiving user input at the service execution computer system, the received user input defining second allocation rules for an allocation of revenues to be received as payment for the actual services performed as part of the service order from each actual service receiver of the second group of multiple different service receivers, the second allocation rules comprising either revisions to the planned allocation rules or newly created allocation rules, and forwarding in electronic form the second allocation rules to the cost accounting system; creating an electronic billing request document that identifies an amount due as payment for the actual services under the service order by each of the actual service receivers of the second group of multiple different service receivers, the creation of the electronic billing request document comprising determining allocation of an overall revenue amount among the actual service receivers of the second group of multiple different service receivers based on the second allocation rules; and forwarding to the cost accounting system in electronic form the overall revenue amount and the determined allocation of the overall revenue amount among the second group of multiple different service receivers.