Patent ID: 8527411

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for managing invoices for a customer, the method comprising: obtaining, by a computer, customer transaction data reflecting individual transactions for a service or product provided to a customer, the customer transaction data including structured data generated from unstructured data reflecting events associated with the service or product; generating, by the computer, total transaction data and detailed transaction data from the obtained customer transaction data, wherein the total transaction data reflects total transaction amounts during a billing period and the detailed transaction data describes the individual transactions made by the customer during the billing period; separating, by the computer, the total transaction data from the detailed transaction data; sending, by the computer, the detailed transaction data to a billing record database for storage therein, the detailed transaction data being stored as invoicing records including business objects; and sending, by the computer, the separate total transaction data from a first processing component to a second processing component for the second processing component to perform invoice management functions based on the total transaction data and without the detailed transaction data, the total transaction data being sent in an Event Data Record (EDR) format.