Patent AU-2015203566-A1 (AU)
Title: Tariff management configuration automation
Inventor: HOW ADRIAN ENVIN
IPC: G06Q30/00
Filed: 2015-06-26
Abstract: A computer-implemented method of generating a tariff and/or billing configuration for a tariff and/or billing plan, the method including providing, by one or more computers, a user interface which displays in a selection area representations of packages that each represent a service that is available for inclusion in a proposed configuration of a tariff and/or billing plan for services to be offered to customers, wherein each package is arranged as a hierarchical structure of elements including (i) one or more products associated with that package, (ii) one or more components associated with each product, (iii) one or more attributes of each component, and (iv) a label, and a value of each attribute, and wherein the proposed configuration of the tariff and/or billing plan for services to be offered to customers is not yet available to customers, receiving, by the one or more computers through the user interface, a user selection of a particular package for inclusion in a proposed configuration of a tariff and/or billing plan for services to be offered to customers, in response to receiving the user selection of the particular package, determining that a category of customer for which the configuration of the billing plan is proposed is consistent with a category of customer corresponding to the particular package, in response to determining that the category of customer for which the configuration of the billing plan is proposed is consistent with the category of customer corresponding to the particular package, providing, by the one or more computers, the hierarchical structure of the elements associated with the particular package for display in a design area of the user interface as at least a part of the proposed configuration of the tariff and/or billing plan for services to be offered to customers, and an indication that the category of customer for which the configuration of the billing plan is proposed is consistent with the category of customer corresponding to the particular package, receiving, by the one or more computers through the user interface, a user selection of a particular element displayed in the design area, receiving, by the one or more computers through the user interface, a user-input modification of the particular element, updating, by the one or more computers, the proposed configuration of the tariff and/or billing plan for services to be offered to customers to include the modified hierarchical structure of the particular package, and validating, by the one or more computers, the inclusion of the modified hierarchical structure of the particular package in the proposed configuration of the tariff and/or billing plan for services to be offered to customers based on determining that a category of customer for which the configuration of the tariff and/or billing plan is proposed is consistent with a category of customer for the particular package. 0)0 0 -0 U) *U E 0 a - 6 .60 co E 0 CL)U 0 'oU),u -J 0 0 r_~ _E 0 E , Ep m 22 a) L : cu -0. E D a)0 c 0) 0 ~7 - '' ~0 & m~ 0- EL O~. c g) E z W0 C 0 0n0 m 0 -3 0U)C -oc mL Cu 0 0a D uc w- -0 C L U ). * 00 x c CL 04 .s'