Billing Destination Verification in Information Processing Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems face challenges in billing fees accurately to organizations with different accounting systems, often requiring users to pay upfront and seek reimbursement, which can be inefficient and prone to errors.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device with a provision unit, reception unit, and control unit that receives billing destinations, verifies them with an external device, and stores usage history, enabling direct billing to the appropriate organization without user reimbursement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the system uses a single accounting system for billing, then billing simplicity is improved, but adaptability to different organizations' accounting systems deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the billing system into multiple independent accounting system modules, each capable of handling different organizations' accounting formats. The system can select and switch between these segmented modules based on the specific organization being billed, thereby maintaining both simplicity within each module and adaptability across different organizations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal billing platform that can perform multiple accounting functions by integrating different accounting system interfaces. This multi-functional design allows the same system to adapt to various organizations' accounting requirements without requiring separate billing systems for each organization.
2Measurement precision
If the user pays fees upfront and seeks reimbursement, then billing accuracy to the correct organization is improved, but time efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary identification and verification of the correct billing destination organization before the service is provided. By determining the appropriate billing organization in advance and configuring the billing system accordingly, the system eliminates the need for post-service reimbursement processes, thereby saving time while maintaining billing accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms that verify billing destination information in real-time during the service provision process. This feedback loop ensures that fees are billed to the correct organization immediately, preventing billing errors and eliminating the need for subsequent reimbursement corrections.
3Measurement precision
If the system stores detailed usage history for multiple billing destinations, then billing accuracy is improved, but data management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments usage history data into separate storage regions or databases corresponding to different billing destinations. This segmentation allows the system to manage detailed usage data for multiple organizations independently, maintaining billing accuracy while reducing the complexity of managing all data together through organized, modular data structures.
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AI summary
An information processing device is provided with a provision unit, a reception unit, and a control unit. The provision unit provides a service. The reception unit receives a billing destination of a fee with respect to a use of the service from among multiple destinations including a first organization that manages the service and a second organization different from the first organization. The control unit forwards, to an external device, a request to use the service including a request for verification of the billing destination received by the reception unit, controls the provision of the service by the provision unit in accordance with a response from the external device regarding the forwarded request, and causes a usage history of the service to be stored in association with the billing destination received by the reception unit.