Patent ID: 6125354
Filing Date: 2000-09-26
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
In an electronic billing system for analyzing and managing billed charges which are billed to an organization by multiple service providers, a method of automatically adjusting the billed charges to create an invoice of rebill charges which are to be distributed among elements of the organization, the method comprising:displaying an organizational hierarchy of the organization on a display device, the organizational hierarchy including at least one element of the organization;associating a selected element with services that have been provided to the selected element by the multiple service providers;categorizing into groups the billed charges corresponding to the services;accepting respectively an independent reprice parameter for each of the groups of the billed charges;applying respectively each of the independent reprice parameter to each of the groups of the billed charges in order to calculate rebill charges; andgenerating an invoice including the rebill charges, whereby the billed charges can be automatically adjusted and rebilled to any element in the organizational hierarchy.