Patent ID: 6282552
Filing Date: 2001-08-28
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
An information processing system for creating and distributing customizable electronic bills with nested levels of permission control, to one or more user systems coupled therewith, the information processing system comprising:a billing generator for generating billing data;one or more interface controls for use on the one or more user systems for controlling one or more rules setting forth permissible comments and modifications for use in one or more electronic, bills, wherein the comments and the modifications which are permissible are displayed as governed by the interface controls on the one or more user systems and wherein the comments and the modifications which are not permissible are hidden from display as governed by the one or more interface controls on the one or more user systems;combining means for combining the billing data with one or more interface controls to form one or more electronic bills with embedded controls, wherein the electronic bill is capable of being viewed and modified on one or more user systems, and that the one or more user systems using the embedded controls, are able to set forth a set of comments and modifications permitted to be made by the one or more subsequent recipients of the one or more electronic bills; andtransmission means for providing a transmission of the one or more electronic bills to the one or more user systems.