Computing Center Billing System

Abstract

This invention relates to a computing power center billing system, comprising nine interconnected functional modules: a computing power product management module, a computing power resource management module, a billing item management module, a usage tier rate management module, a computing power plan management module, a discount management module, a billing adjustment module, a bill generation module, and a plan resource allocation module. The system uses the computing power product management module as the entry point, sequentially establishing the pricing basis through the computing power resource management module, the billing item management module, and the usage tier rate management module. The computing power plan management module integrates subscription plans, and finally, the discount management module, the billing adjustment module, and the bill generation module complete the fee settlement, generating bills that users can view and download.

Claims

1. A computing center billing system, comprising: A computing power product management module includes multiple computing power products, each of which corresponds to at least one computing resource. A computing resource management module, coupled to the computing product management module, is used to monitor and manage the usage status of the aforementioned computing resources corresponding to the aforementioned computing product; a billing item management module, coupled to the computing resource management module, is configured with multiple billing items, each billing item having a billing unit; a usage tier rate management module, coupled to the billing item management module, is configured with multiple usage ranges corresponding to each billing item, and a rate unit price corresponding to the aforementioned usage range; a computing power solution management module, including multiple computing power subscription solutions, each computing power subscription solution including a free quota and at least one billing mode; a discount management module, coupled to the computing power solution management module, is used to set and apply at least one discount rule to the aforementioned computing power subscription solutions, the aforementioned discount rule including a percentage discount or a fixed amount discount; A billing adjustment module, coupled to the discount management module, is used to handle billing anomalies and output at least one billing adjustment record, which includes a reason code field and an audit status field. A billing generation module, coupled to the usage tier rate management module, the computing power plan management module, the discount management module, and the billing adjustment module, is used to sequentially summarize the usage status of the aforementioned computing resources, identify the aforementioned computing power subscription plan and the subscription fee of the aforementioned computing power subscription plan, calculate a total cost for the usage status of the aforementioned computing resources, and generate a bill based on the aforementioned discount rules and the aforementioned billing adjustment record.

2. The computing center billing system as described in claim 1, wherein, The aforementioned computing power products of the computing power product management module include one of the following: GPU computing power, CPU computing power, AI inference service, storage service, and data processing service.

3. The computing center billing system as described in claim 1, wherein, The aforementioned billing items in the billing item management module include one of the following: GPU computing time, CPU computing time, storage capacity, network traffic, number of API calls, and number of language model tokens.

4. The computing center billing system as described in claim 1, wherein, The aforementioned billing modes for the computing power solution management module include one of the following: usage-based billing mode, subscription-based billing mode, one-time fee mode, and request-based billing mode.

5. The computing center billing system as described in claim 1, wherein, The discount management module includes a discount validity verification mechanism that sets the percentage discount to be less than 100% and the fixed amount discount to be less than the total cost.

6. The computing center billing system as described in claim 1, wherein, The accounting adjustment module includes an audit control mechanism configured to require each of the aforementioned accounting adjustment records to enter a reason code in the reason code field, and to make the aforementioned accounting adjustment record effective after an authorized supervisor has completed the audit status review in the audit status field.

7. The computing center billing system as described in claim 1, wherein, A scheme resource allocation module is coupled to the computing power scheme management module and the computing power resource management module. The scheme resource allocation module is used to allocate the aforementioned computing resources to each of the aforementioned computing power subscription schemes.

8. The computing center billing system as described in claim 7, wherein, The resource allocation module of this solution has a role-based access control mechanism, which restricts a user's access permissions to the computing power product management module, the computing power resource management module, the billing item management module, the usage tier rate management module, the computing power solution management module, the discount management module, the billing adjustment module, and the bill generation module.

9. The computing center billing system as described in claim 1, wherein, The billing module has an anomaly detection mechanism that detects the difference between the total cost of the current period and the total cost of the previous period, and generates an anomaly notification when the difference exceeds a preset threshold.

10. The computing center billing system as described in claim 1, wherein, There is an API wrapper interface that, in response to a request from an external system, responds with the usage status of the aforementioned computing resources, the total cost, and provides a downloadable bill for that cost.

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