Patent ID: 8548881

Claim:
A non-transitory, computer-readable medium having computer-executable instruction sets configured to reduce latency during invoice generation involving credit distribution, the computer-executable instruction sets comprising: a line item acquisition instruction set configured to retrieve, from an electronic data store, invoice line item information associated with data service usage of at least one data services provider; a reference generation instruction set configured to generate an electronic reference table comprising a plurality of reference table entries, each entry associated with select portions of the invoice line item information acquired by the line item acquisition instruction set from the electronic data store; a supplemental charge rate determination instruction set configured to analyze at least a portion of each reference table entry to determine a supplemental charge rate associated with each reference table entry; a credit application instruction set configured to apply credits to select ones of the reference table entries in decreasing supplemental charge rate order, each credit being associated with particular retrieved invoice line item information; and an invoice generation instruction set configured to generate an invoice that includes at least some of the line item information acquired by the line item acquisition instruction set and the associated credits, as applied by the credit application instruction set.