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136 results about "Billing system" patented technology

Billing System. A billing system is a combination of software and hardware that receives call detail and service usage information, groups this information for specific accounts or customers, produces invoices, creates reports for management, and records (posts) payments made to customer accounts.

Resource metering method and device, electronic equipment and storage medium

The invention discloses a resource metering method and device, electronic equipment and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of computers.According to the resource metering method and device, due to the fact that a sliding window aggregation algorithm is adopted to merge use features of heterogeneous resources according to dynamic step length and duration, metering information of burst loads can be accurately captured, and metering efficiency is improved. Meanwhile, the charging rule is determined by combining the pre-training pricing model of real-time resource supply and demand and user characteristics, and resource use metering and adaptive charging which are finer than minute-level sampling are realized, so that the problems that the deviation between the resource use amount and the charging amount is obvious and the charging efficiency is low due to the fact that an existing charging method adopts a minute-level sampling mechanism can be solved. The technical problems of the prior art are solved, and the technical effects of improving the accuracy of heterogeneous resource charging and enhancing the credibility and fairness of the charging system are achieved.
Owner:JINAN INSPUR DATA TECH CO LTD

System and method for privacy-preserving electric-vehicle charging using artificial intelligence integrated blockchain and homomorphic encryption

The present invention relates to a privacy-preserving EV charging authorization and billing system, and a method for the same. The proposed system is configured to integrate permissioned blockchain with fully homomorphic encryption. The present invention aims to eliminate plaintext exposure mitigates single point of failure, by performing all authorization and billing computations on encrypted data and recoding transactions immutably, wherein an EV user securely generates encrypted authorization and billing requests using FHE-based public keys. The charging station routes these encrypted requests to the blockchain network, which records immutable encrypted transactions and verifies them via consensus. The FHE computation layer performs secure operations on the encrypted data for authorization and billing, while smart contracts execute automated verification and billing computations, ensuring transparency and auditability.
Owner:KING KHALID UNIV +1

Intelligent elevator shared card swiping charging system and method

According to the intelligent elevator shared card swiping charging system and method, data are collected through a multi-mode sensor, after edge calculation preprocessing, cross-regional dynamic pricing is achieved through federal learning, and a personalized package is recommended in combination with reinforcement learning; abnormal behaviors are detected by adopting a space-time attention mechanism, and privacy security is guaranteed through zero-knowledge proof; equipment predictive maintenance is realized based on a digital twinning and LSTM model, and automatic account division and carbon integral excitation are completed by a block chain intelligent contract. According to the system, the elevator resource utilization rate is effectively improved by more than 30%, the anomaly detection accuracy rate reaches 98%, the equipment failure rate is reduced by 55%, the energy consumption is reduced by 20%, meanwhile, multi-party income distribution automation is achieved, an efficient, safe and low-carbon solution is provided for elevator sharing management, and the system is suitable for being applied to multiple scenes such as commercial buildings and residential districts.
Owner:BEIJING XINJIACHUN TECHNOLOGY CO LTD

Charging method and apparatus

This application provides a charging method, an apparatus, and a system, and is applied to the field of converged charging. The method includes: After receiving a charging request message from a charging trigger function network element, a charging function network element charges a terminal device based on charging data of the terminal device, where the charging request message is for requesting to charge the terminal device, the charging data is received by the charging function network element from a dedicated charging function network element, and the dedicated charging function network element is a charging system that persistently stores user data of the terminal device. According to the foregoing solution, cross-area transmission of a large amount of charging information generated in a charging process can be reduced, to reduce signaling network load and improve cyber resilience.
Owner:HUAWEI TECH CO LTD

Calculation power unified charging system

The invention provides a computing power unified charging system, which is arranged on a unified computing power management and control platform, the unified computing power management and control platform is integrated with a plurality of intelligent computing centers at different geographic positions through a unified northbound interface, and a policy configuration module performs charging policy configuration; the usage analysis module performs resource usage analysis on the operation monitoring data acquired from each intelligent calculation center to obtain resource usage data of the user, wherein the resource usage data is composed of usage of each single resource; the unit price calculation module adjusts the basic unit price of each single resource based on the multiple adjustment factors corresponding to the single resource to obtain a billing unit price; and the resource charging module is used for calculating the total cost of the user by adopting a charging strategy matched with the user based on the resource consumption data of the user and the charging unit price of each single resource in the resource consumption data. And efficient integration and unified and flexible charging of dispersed intelligent computing resources are realized.
Owner:SHANGHAI INTELLIGENT COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY CO LTD

Number segment configuration methods, devices, electronic equipment, and storage media

This application provides a number segment configuration method, apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium. The method includes: obtaining the latest full-scale planned number segment files from each operator, and obtaining configured number segment files from each 5GC billing system; verifying each configured number segment file based on the latest full-scale planned number segment files from each operator, obtaining verification result files, where the verification result files contain missing number segments and / or incorrectly configured number segments in the configured number segment files; generating a number segment local data script corresponding to each 5GC billing system; and importing each verification result file into each 5GC billing system through each number segment local data script, updating the configured number segments in each 5GC billing system. The method of this application can ensure the accuracy of number segment configuration in each 5GC billing system.
Owner:CHINA UNITED NETWORK COMM GRP CO LTD

Charging pricing data cutover method and device, computer equipment and storage medium

The invention relates to a charging pricing data cutover method and device, computer equipment, a computer readable storage medium and a computer program product. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring pricing configuration data and original description information of a package to be cut over in a historical version charging system; inputting the pricing configuration data into a pre-trained tariff large model to obtain pricing natural language description information of the to-be-cutover package; under the condition that the consistency between the pricing natural language description information and the original description information is greater than a preset threshold value, generating a corresponding template structure cue word according to the charge template configuration description information of the new version charging system; inputting the template structure cue word and the pricing natural language description information into a pre-trained tariff large model to obtain tariff template structured information of the package to be cut over; and converting the tariff template structured information to obtain pricing configuration data of the to-be-cut package in the new version charging system. By adopting the method, the charging pricing data cutover efficiency can be improved.
Owner:CHINA TELECOM CORP LTD TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION CENTER +1

Systems and methods for medical imaging gateways

The present disclosure provides a gateway edge system. The gateway edge system comprise a data orchestration engine comprising a plurality of modules configured to receive and process data according to a workflow and dynamically route the processed data to one or more entities that are in communication with the gateway edge system, the gateway edge system is configured to be deployed within a firewall of the healthcare system, and the plurality of modules comprises an ingestion and normalization module configured to: receive input data from a plurality of electronic data sources located within the healthcare system, wherein the plurality of electronic data sources comprises at least two different sources and wherein the at least two different sources comprise an EHR, a radiology electronic clinical data system, PACS, radiation dose data, a billing system or a claim system and normalize the input data by mapping to a standardized data model.
Owner:ALARA IMAGING INC

Pricing test method, device and equipment for a billing system and medium

The disclosure provides a pricing test method, device, equipment and medium for a charging system, and belongs to the technical field of function test. The method comprises the following steps: generating verification test sample data, wherein the verification test sample data comprises verification test user data, verification test call data and result verification data; determining whether a first condition is met; providing the verification test user data and the verification test call data to the charging system; obtaining execution result data of the charging system in performing pricing test on the verification test call data according to the verification test user data; and determining a pricing test result of the charging system according to the result verification data and the execution result data. The disclosure can effectively improve the verification accuracy of the verification result of the pricing correctness, and effectively reduce the verification time and the verification workload.
Owner:CHINA MOBILE GRP FUJIAN CO LTD

Intelligent management and control method for port business contract rate

The application relates to the technical field of port business management, and particularly discloses an intelligent management and control method for port business contract rates, which comprises the following steps: a CRNN model is used to process a paper contract scanning image, and a contract text is recognized; a named entity recognition model combined with Bi-LSTM and CRF is used to extract rate rules from the contract text, and a rate mapping function is used to automatically generate rates in a business billing system; a rate difference calculation formula is used to compare the generated rates with existing rates in the business billing system, and a difference report is generated; a cosine similarity algorithm is used to compare the rate rule differences in new and old contract texts, a difference level is divided, and a difference comparison table is generated. The intelligent management and control method for port business contract rates solves the problems of low efficiency, high error rate and lagging management and control of manual operation, and improves the efficiency and accuracy of contract processing, rate extraction and generation and comparison analysis.
Owner:YANTAI WEIJIA SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY CO LTD

A charging billing method and system for a vehicle

The application provides a charging billing method of a vehicle, which is applied to a charging billing system comprising a vehicle machine charging end, a billing end and a charging background end which are connected in communication with each other, and comprises the following steps: the vehicle machine charging end sends a charging billing request to the billing end bound thereto, wherein the charging billing request is generated by encrypting user's household number information and a vehicle identifier according to a preset public key; the billing end decrypts and processes the charging billing request through a private key to obtain the vehicle identifier and the household number information; the billing end judges whether the vehicle identifier obtained by decryption is consistent with the vehicle identifier of the vehicle machine charging end bound to the billing end; if yes, the charging background end is reminded to perform charging billing according to the household number information; if not, the charging background end is reminded to perform charging billing in a public way. Through the charging billing method and system of the vehicle, the vehicle charging cost of a community owner can be reduced.
Owner:BESTECHNIC SHANGHAI CO LTD

A billing data processing method, a network payment clearing system and related devices

PendingCN122312286APaymentTransaction data
This invention discloses a billing data processing method, a network payment clearing system, and related equipment. The method includes: generating a first reconciliation file based on first transaction information within a preset reconciliation period. The first transaction information is stored in the transaction database of the transaction system and includes the value information of the transaction requested by the transaction request and the transaction fee corresponding to the value information; when it is determined that there is missing information in the first reconciliation file, obtaining second transaction information from the billing system and processing the first transaction information using the second transaction information to obtain third transaction information; updating the first reconciliation file based on the third transaction information to obtain a second reconciliation file. Therefore, for scenarios of missed billing or failure to obtain transaction fees, while ensuring the continuity and stability of real-time transaction billing, an automatic compensation mechanism through bypass is used to achieve automatic compensation of billing data, eliminating the need for manual intervention and thus improving the system's processing performance and efficiency.
Owner:NETSUNION CLEARING CORP

Central air conditioner charging system based on time-energy double factors

The invention belongs to the technical field of central air conditioner charging, and particularly relates to a central air conditioner charging system based on time-energy double factors, which comprises a data acquisition module, a central management platform and an intelligent control module which are connected in sequence, the air conditioner operation time and actual energy consumption data are accurately collected, fair and accurate charging is achieved through a scientific and reasonable two-factor fusion calculation mode, meanwhile, a user is stimulated to save energy, the energy utilization efficiency is improved, and the energy utilization efficiency is improved by comprehensively considering the two core factors of time and energy. The system can accurately reflect the actual use condition of the central air conditioner by the user. According to the method and the system, use scenes with different time periods and different energy consumption can be reasonably embodied in cost calculation, unfairness of a traditional charging mode is thoroughly avoided, disputes caused by charging problems among users are effectively reduced, and a harmonious use environment is created.
Owner:SHANDONG GREED ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY CO LTD

User service processing method, system, and related device

A user service processing method in a charging system is as follows: A charging trigger device provides initial quota application mode indication information for a charging processing device, so as to indicate an initial quota request mode previously applied by the charging trigger device for a user service. The charging processing device performs charging processing on the user service based on the indication information, and delivers a charging processing result to the charging trigger device, to enable the charging trigger device to change a charging operation on the user service. In this way, by changing a cooperation relationship between the charging processing device and the charging trigger device, a balance between performance of the charging system and a credit control risk, or between an access delay and a credit control risk is implemented.
Owner:HUAWEI TECH CO LTD

A reconciliation method and system

PendingCN122288900ABusiness enterpriseDatabase
This invention relates to the field of transaction processing optimization technology, applied to financial reconciliation business scenarios, and discloses a reconciliation method and system, including: a reconciliation center reconciling bill files directly sent by the billing system and sub-reconciliation files obtained from the target investment enterprise. Specifically, the reconciliation results of bills in all bill files with a large amount of data are updated with sub-reconciliation files containing a small amount of data. This operation improves the marking speed of the reconciliation results of bills in the billing files. At the same time, the first sub-reconciliation batch number of the sub-reconciliation file is recorded. In the sub-reconciliation file corresponding to the recorded first sub-reconciliation batch number, the bills that are the same as the bills marked as balanced in the billing files are marked as balanced. This can also improve the marking speed of the reconciliation results of bills in the sub-reconciliation files, and ultimately improve the timeliness of reconciliation.
Owner:SHANGHAI JIEYIN E-COMMERCE CO LTD

Intelligent data-driven charging rule generation method and system and electronic equipment

The invention relates to an intelligent data-driven charging rule generation method, an intelligent data-driven charging rule generation system and electronic equipment. The method comprises the following steps: collecting and cleaning user behavior data and business rule data; clustering based on the cleaned user behavior data and service rule data, and optimizing an initial charging rule generated by clustering by using a pre-trained decision tree model to generate a charging rule; performing global search on the gene sequence representing the rule parameters by adopting a genetic algorithm, performing local fine tuning on an initial rule combination obtained by the global search by using reinforcement learning, and generating a charging rule; and verifying the charging rule. According to the invention, the technical problems of high cost, slow response and insufficient accuracy caused by dependence on manpower, low efficiency, poor flexibility, error proneness and verification lagging in the traditional charging rule generation are solved, and the technical effects of remarkably improving the efficiency, accuracy and flexibility of the charging system and reducing the labor cost and the operation risk are achieved.
Owner:DIGITAL CHONGQING BIG DATA APPL DEV CO LTD

Method and apparatus for pushing user resources

Embodiments of the present application provide a user resource pushing method and device, obtain a plurality of feature data of a user and flow rate categories in different time periods; the plurality of feature data are feature data which have an influence on user traffic usage behavior, predict a flow rate category of the user in a future preset time period through a network model according to the feature data and the flow rate categories in different time periods, and push a resource piece corresponding to the predicted flow rate category to the user in the preset time period according to the flow rate category of the user in the preset time period, so as to provide a resource piece of a corresponding size to the user according to the demand of the user for flow rate in different time periods, thereby reducing the interaction frequency with the user, improving the processing efficiency of an existing billing system, and reducing the pressure on the billing system.
Owner:CHINA UNITED NETWORK COMM GRP CO LTD

Online nuclear power electric quantity report recovery method and system and computer program product

The invention provides an online nuclear power electric quantity report recovery method, an online nuclear power electric quantity report recovery system and a computer program product, which are suitable for the technical field of nuclear power electric energy management. Enabling the computer equipment to read load curve data stored in the electric energy meter through the special inductive probe, and enabling the computer equipment to obtain target historical data corresponding to the data defect time period of the electric quantity from the load curve data; the master station system can recover the online nuclear power electric quantity report based on target historical data; according to the method, the recovered ammeter data can be ensured to be accurate by using the preset time synchronization mechanism and the load curve data stored in the ammeter, so that the accuracy of the regenerated electric quantity report is ensured; therefore, the problem of data loss or abnormity caused by the acquisition device or communication fault in the nuclear power station networked electric energy charging system is solved, and the reliability and stability of the master station system are improved.
Owner:LINGAO NUCLEAR POWER +3

New energy charging pile billing device and billing system

The invention discloses a new energy charging pile billing device and billing system, and relates to the technical field of charging piles. The charging pile comprises a charging pile body, a sunshade arc plate is slidably mounted on the charging pile body, a control sliding rod is fixedly mounted on the bottom face of the sunshade arc plate and extends into the charging pile body, a rack is fixedly mounted at the bottom end of the control sliding rod, and a shielding plate is rotatably mounted on the back face of the charging pile body. A cooling fan is fixedly installed on the back face of the charging pile body, a sliding rheostat and a fan power source are installed in the charging pile body, a driving gear is fixedly installed on the shielding plate, an adjusting gear is rotatably installed in the charging pile body, the driving gear is meshed with the adjusting gear, and the adjusting gear is meshed with the rack. And the slide rheostat is electrically connected with the fan power supply, and the cooling fan is electrically connected with the resistance slip sheet, so that external rainwater, humid air or dust can enter the charging pile body to damage electrical devices, and the service life of the charging pile body is prolonged.
Owner:BEIJING SHENZHOU XINCHEN TECH CO LTD

Integrated service charging system based on statistics and archiving of Internet of Things

The invention discloses a comprehensive service charging system based on Internet of Things statistics and archiving. The comprehensive service charging system comprises Internet of Things equipment, gateway and communication equipment, calculation and storage equipment and charging and management software, the Internet of Things equipment comprises a sensor, IP equipment and non-IP equipment; the gateway and communication device comprises a cloud gateway device and a communication module. The computing and storage device comprises a server and a storage device; the billing and management software comprises an electric power billing module, an engineering billing module, a communication billing module, a water supply billing module and a sporadic billing module. According to the integrated service charging system based on the Internet of Things statistics and archiving, the integrated service charging system which meets the compliance requirement is installed and is in butt joint with a star vast receivable and payable management system, an investment attracting law system and other investment attracting third-party systems; the requirements of establishing a complete association relationship between each receivable and payable service and a contract, an invoice (receipt), a settlement record and an accounting voucher and supporting penetrating type tracing joint check are met.
Owner:ZHANJIANG PORT (GRP) CO LTD

Promotion income sharing method, billing system and intelligent wardrobe

The invention provides a promotion income sharing method, and relates to the field of intelligent wardrobes, and the method comprises the steps: responding to an exchange request of a digital exchange coupon of a user side, and generating an encryption certificate containing an effective timestamp and a unique identifier based on a first node; when a corresponding target device identifies the digital exchange coupon, the encrypted certificate is verified through a second node; if the encrypted certificate is in an unused state and is valid, controlling the target device to execute an exchange request of the digital exchange certificate, determining a promotion income amount corresponding to the exchange request, and writing corresponding verification success information and the promotion income amount into the block chain; and if the encryption certificate is in the expired state and / or the used state, writing verification failure information of the encryption certificate into the block chain. By means of block chain distributed verification and non-tampering characteristics, the states of the exchange coupons are clearly distinguished, the problem of state fuzziness is solved, it is ensured that the basis for promotion income calculation is real and reliable, and fraudulent transactions are reduced.
Owner:广东省嘉木丽家智能科技股份有限公司

A blockchain-based quantum key billing system

This invention discloses a blockchain-based quantum key billing system, belonging to the field of quantum communication technology. It includes: a quantum key management terminal, a blockchain-based distributed storage system, a quantum service support system, and quantum key application devices. The quantum key management terminal receives quantum key request information from the quantum key application devices, outputs quantum keys to the quantum key application devices, generates billing information including the amount of quantum keys output, and uploads the billing information to the distributed storage system. The quantum service support system retrieves billing information for each quantum key application device from the distributed storage system and determines whether to update the service status of the quantum key application device based on the amount of quantum keys, subscribed packages, and user balance in the billing information. This invention, based on blockchain technology, avoids data loss or corruption caused by single-point device failure.
Owner:QUANTUMCTEK CO LTD +1

Parking charging method and parking system applied to three-dimensional parking garage

The invention provides a parking billing method and a parking system applied to a three-dimensional parking garage, the parking billing system is provided with a preferential policy interface communicated with a charging billing system, and the method comprises the following steps: calculating a parking billing amount corresponding to a parking request according to a preset parking billing rule; recommending a charging preferential exchange coupon of the preferential activity to the first user; responding to a use request of the first user for using the charging preferential exchange coupon and analyzing a charging preferential strategy corresponding to the charging preferential exchange coupon, and feeding back the charging preferential strategy to the charging payment system based on a preferential strategy interface; and receiving a charging payment amount from the charging payment system, and generating a total payment amount based on the parking payment amount and the charging payment amount. On the premise of keeping independent billing of the parking payment system and the charging payment system, a discount policy interface is arranged to realize intercommunication of a discount coupon function, so that the individual requirement of customers for enjoying free charging through parking discount activities is met, and unified billing is realized during fee settlement.
Owner:SHAOGUAN LEIXIN MACHINERY MFG

Charging system and method

The application provides a charging system and method, which comprises a user data analysis module, a GGSN, and an online charging module. The user data analysis module is used for obtaining the corresponding user level according to the historical call data, the historical service average resource consumption and the current residual resource amount of each user, and configuring the upgrade protocol request of BOSS according to the user level. The GGSN is used for disconnecting the connection with the online charging module, keeping the connection with the offline charging module, and buffering the resource amount used by the user to the buffer module or sending the credit control request corresponding to the user to the offline charging module for charging processing when the upgrade protocol request is received. The online charging module is used for obtaining the charging processing result corresponding to each user according to the resource amount in the buffer module and the charging processing result in the offline charging module when the upgrade of BOSS is completed. The application realizes the cooperative charging of GGSN and BOSS, so as to reduce the waste of computing resource and improve the upgrade efficiency.
Owner:CHINA MOBILE GRP BEIJING +1

Intelligent dosing platform system with prior authorization and pharmacy benefit manager integration

PendingUS20260137868A1Medical communicationMedical data miningStep therapyDispensary
An intelligent dosing platform system for prior authorization and pharmacy benefit management comprising intelligent injection devices with prior authorization modules configured to receive medication release approval from pharmacies, distributing agents, and payor entities. The system analyzes authorization requirements by evaluating individual payor policies, pharmacy benefit manager formulary restrictions, step therapy requirements, medical necessity criteria, seasonality factors, and timing considerations. An automated decision engine determines authorization approval or denial based on real-time policy evaluation and aggregated device usage data from multiple injection devices. An action coordinator triggers downstream processes including preventing device shipment, updating electronic health records, and coordinating billing system updates. A financial reconciliation module ensures one-to-one correspondence between authorization approvals and fulfillment activities, matching approved medications with actually shipped or administered medications while preventing payment for unapproved medications.
Owner:DATADOSE LLC

Metrological verification instrument for alternating current charging pile

The utility model relates to the technical field of charging pile monitoring, and particularly discloses a metering verification instrument for an alternating current charging pile, which comprises an instrument body, the top end of the instrument body is rotatably connected with a cover, the top end of the instrument body is fixedly connected with a display screen, and the top end of the instrument body is provided with a socket. The top end of the instrument body is provided with a cleaning mechanism used for cleaning chippings in the socket, the cleaning mechanism comprises a sliding seat fixedly connected to the top end of the instrument body, a cleaning piece is slidably connected to the interior of the socket, the bottom end of the cleaning piece is fixedly connected with a long rod, and a blocking piece is slidably connected to the interior of the sliding seat; therefore, the scraps and sundries in the socket are prevented from hindering the connection between the charging pile plug and the metrological verification instrument, so that the working state of the metrological verification instrument is ensured, and a billing system or a detection result of the charging pile is prevented from being influenced.
Owner:NINGBO IUXPOWER ELECTRONIC TECH CO LTD

A billing system and billing terminal based on service enhancement with rich detail range

The present disclosure provides a charging system based on rich detail range promotion service and a charging end, and belongs to the technical field of service charging. The charging system based on rich detail range promotion service comprises a receiving end, a platform end and a charging end. The receiving end is used for generating detail enhancement evidence for each target video segment performing rich detail range, and sending the detail enhancement evidence to the charging end. The platform end is used for generating play record evidence for the play fact of each target video segment, and sending the play record evidence to the charging end. The charging end is used for charging the target video segment according to the play record evidence and the detail enhancement evidence. The charging end charges by comprehensively combining the play record evidence and the detail enhancement evidence, and only charges in the case that the rich detail range is confirmed to be performed for the target video segment and the target video segment is also normally played. In this way, the problem of result deviation caused by single report of the receiving end or the platform end can be solved.
Owner:TCL CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO LTD

Multi-model dynamic switching and usage charging system and charging method

The invention relates to a multi-model dynamic switching and usage charging system and method, and the system comprises a model registration center which is used for managing the model configuration of a plurality of AI suppliers; the BYOK management module is used for encrypting and storing the API key carried by the user and using the API key carried by the user; the quota charging engine is used for performing independent quota management on different types of user requirements based on the rolling period; the model loader is used for dynamically acquiring model configuration according to the BYOK priority; the unified API adaptation layer is used for converting request and / or response formats of different model suppliers; the user requirements comprise text requirements and picture requirements. According to the invention, secure storage and preferential use of the BYOK carried by the user, fair charging of a rolling charging period, independent management of Token and image quota, unified registration and dynamic switching of multi-supplier models, layered subscription and real-time monitoring of quota can be realized.
Owner:YAOLAN INTELLIGENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) CO LTD

Print billing system, information processing apparatus, controlling method of information processing apparatus, and storage medium

In a print billing system that includes an image forming apparatus and an information processing apparatus mutually connected via a network: the image forming apparatus comprises a transmitting unit for transmitting information of usage based amounts respectively concerning a plurality of usage based billing methods having different modes; and the information processing apparatus comprises a storing unit for storing the information of the usage based amount obtained from the image forming apparatus, a calculating unit for calculating billing sums of money of the plurality of usage based billing methods based on the information of the usage based amounts, and a selecting unit configured to select one of the plurality of usage based billing methods based on the billing sum of money of each of the usage based billing methods calculated by the calculating unit.
Owner:CANON KK