Patent ID: 8589227

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of reconciling media property invoice data for advertising services with advertising agency final buy data, the media property invoice data comprising a plurality of invoice items, each invoice item corresponding to an advertisement spot for which the media property requests payment, the method comprising: receiving the invoice data, the invoice data comprising a plurality of data fields representative of a plurality of advertisement spots for which the media property requests payment; receiving final buy data in a plurality of different formats from a plurality of advertising agencies, the received final buy data comprising a plurality of final buy items, each final buy item corresponding to an advertisement spot request that was placed by an advertising agency with the media property; generating commonly formatted data by converting the received final buy data to a common format, the commonly formatted data comprising a plurality of data fields representative of the plurality of final buy items; comparing the invoice data with the commonly formatted data representative of the final buy items; generating data indicative of an extent to which a plurality of the fields of the invoice data match up with a plurality of the fields of the commonly formatted data based on the comparing step; and generating report data based on the generated data resulting from the comparing step, the generated report data being indicative of an extent to which the invoiced advertisement spots correspond to the advertisement spot requests that were placed by the advertising agencies with the media property; and wherein the method steps are performed by a processor.