Cable billing systems and methods enabling independence of service marketing and provisioning from billing and collection of revenue
US7620574B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 18, 2002 |
| Grant date | Nov 17, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 8, 2026 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N21/2543
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Systems and methods that divide the billing function of a billing system from the provisioning function of a service in digital cable systems. Because the billing system is only responsible for billing, rather than the provisioning of services, new services may be quickly added to cable systems without the time consuming and expensive task of configuring the billing system specifically for new services added to the system. The services are implemented using an offering package created by the service, where the offering package contains billing related information forwarded to the billing system to bill for the service.
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