United States Patent
US Patent 7912191: Method and system for monitoring traffic revenue…
US 7912191 · granted 2011-03-22
Abstract
A method for monitoring traffic revenue flows for a plurality of communications companies using Information Technology (IT) systems, including the following steps (v) designing an optimal sample of transactions that maximizes the probability of detecting billing errors done by the communications companies; (vi) executing transactions from the optimal sample of transactions through a plurality of communications networks and recording test transactions data ,using concurrently a shared infrastructure comprising a plurality of robots for generating the transactions; (vii) collecting invoice lines from the IT systems in a non intrusive way, through an automated browsing of the web sites of the communications companies; so as to extract billing data for each test transaction, and (viii) processing the recorded test transactions data so as to re-rate billing for the test transactions, and matching said re-rated transaction billing data to billing data invoice extracted from the collected invoice lines, so as detect billing errors.
| Patent Number | 7912191 |
|---|---|
| Title | Method and system for monitoring traffic revenue flows for communications companies |
| Filed | 2006-11-30 |
| Granted | 2011-03-22 |
| Inventor(s) | Bencheqroun; Mehdi, Lesage; Xavier, Scholer; Christophe |
| Assignee | Araxxe |
| CPC Classification | H04M 11/00 |
| Number of Claims | 40 |
Abstract
A method for monitoring traffic revenue flows for a plurality of communications companies using Information Technology (IT) systems, including the following steps (v) designing an optimal sample of transactions that maximizes the probability of detecting billing errors done by the communications companies; (vi) executing transactions from the optimal sample of transactions through a plurality of communications networks and recording test transactions data ,using concurrently a shared infrastructure comprising a plurality of robots for generating the transactions; (vii) collecting invoice lines from the IT systems in a non intrusive way, through an automated browsing of the web sites of the communications companies; so as to extract billing data for each test transaction, and (viii) processing the recorded test transactions data so as to re-rate billing for the test transactions, and matching said re-rated transaction billing data to billing data invoice extracted from the collected invoice lines, so as detect billing errors.
Claim 1
A method for monitoring traffic revenue flows for a plurality of communications companies using Information Technology (IT) systems, comprising the following steps(i) designing an optimal sample of transactions that maximizes the probability of detecting billing errors done by said communications companies; (ii) executing transactions from said optimal sample of transactions through a plurality of communicationsnetworks and recording test transactions data ,using concurrently a shared infrastructure comprising a plurality of robots for generating said transactions; (iii) collecting invoice lines from said IT systems in a non intrusive way, through an automatedbrowsing of the web sites of said communications companies; so as to extract billing data for each test transaction, and (iv) processing said recorded test transactions data so as to re-rate billing for said test transactions, and matching said re-ratedtransaction billing data to billing data invoice extracted from said collected invoice lines, so as detect billing errors.
Claims
40 totalA method for monitoring traffic revenue flows for a plurality of communications companies using Information Technology (IT) systems, comprising the following steps(i) designing an optimal sample of transactions that maximizes the probability of detecting billing errors done by said communications companies; (ii) executing transactions from said optimal sample of transactions through a plurality of communicationsnetworks and recording test transactions data ,using concurrently a shared infrastructure comprising a plurality of robots for generating said transactions; (iii) collecting invoice lines from said IT systems in a non intrusive way, through an automatedbrowsing of the web sites of said communications companies; so as to extract billing data for each test transaction, and (iv) processing said recorded test transactions data so as to re-rate billing for said test transactions, and matching said re-ratedtransaction billing data to billing data invoice extracted from said collected invoice lines, so as detect billing errors.