Patent ID: 7742961
Filing Date: 2010-06-22
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of managing services accounts, comprising: defining financial budget categories for the services accounts; defining budgets for the categories, respectively; defining rules for the financial budget categories; electronically receiving input on actual usage of the services at a budget controller; electronically adjusting the budgets based on the received input and the defined rules at the budget controller; and determining if service usage for one of the financial budget categories has exceeded a threshold at the budget controller; wherein defining the rules comprises assigning priorities to the financial budget categories, respectively; and wherein adjusting the budgets comprises increasing the budget for the one of the financial budget categories by reducing the budget for another one of the financial budget categories having a priority associated therewith that is not greater than a priority associated with the one of the financial budget categories if the service usage for the one of the financial budget categories has exceeded the threshold.