A billing statement system comprising a billing statement having a plurality of sheets or pages of multiple lengths or which are otherwise of multiple sizes and/or shapes. The billing statement preferably comprises a plurality of sheets wherein at least one sheet is of different, generally larger, size than the other sheets, and in which the larger sheet has a first region with a consumer's mailing address on one side and a provider's mailing address on the reverse side, and a second region whic...

A use billing system with an arrangement for identifying distances traveled by a moving object within a system of traveled distances or for identifying fixed geographical zones entered by the object. In order to provide a billing arrangement which is universally applicable as far as possible and which requires little expenditure on infrastructure, a system is provided which is installed independently for wireless transmission of information to detect the current geographical position of the obje...

A method and system in which calls made by customers who are members of a group of customers having a group calling plan, but who have separate billing accounts, are priced based on the group calling plan and on the usage by other members of the group. Typical groups may include customers in specific geographic locations, such as residents in an apartment building or in a residential neighborhood, and offices and stores in a commercial building. Other groups may include customers in widely separ...

AN automatic calling service is provided wherein a subscriber predefines one or more destination telephone numbers, and calls to such number or numbers are billed to the subscriber's local telephone number. Calls are made to such destination numbers through a platform that may be reached via a toll free number. The calling party identifies him/herself as a subscriber, by entering a personal identification number, to authenticate him/herself as a person entitled to make such calls. Based upon the...

A programmable billing system for use in an automatic copying machine having wide flexibility in the automatic calculation of total bills using a single meter readout to count pulse trains weighted in proportion to the mode of operation of the machine and the billing rate per copy during operation in the selected mode. The system includes a copy counter for generating a unique binary code for each copy made from the same original. The output of the copy counter addresses a semiconductor memory d...

An apparatus, program product and method for determining a cost for using a standby resource that accounts for the cause for the resource's usage. A standby resource, such as a processor, is activated in response to a resource requirement. The cause of the resource requirement is automatically determined. The result of that automatic determination is used to determine a charge indicator for using the standby resource. For instance, performance code associated with a failure may be associated wit...

A programmable billing meter system includes a first meter for recording the total copies produced by a copying machine, a second meter for recording copies made up to a first break point and a third meter for recording copies made from a first break point to a second break point. A programmable network receives copy count data from a series of binary counter, and controls the entry of the count into the appropriate meter the network being capable of being rapidly and conveniently programmed so ...

A portable calculator is adapted to provide a time billing function and a calculating function. A "stop watch" function is actuated to start the billing period and stop the billing period attributable to a particular account. A memory stores the accumulated billing time for the particular account until properly cleared.

An apparatus and method are provided for controlling access to a telecommunications and messaging services system from a server computer that has a web browser installed. The apparatus includes a billing server that maintains a database of telecommunications transaction records. Each time a new telecommunications event occurs, such as a toll call from a number in a user's account, a new transaction record is added to the data base. A service provider interfaces to the database of transaction rec...

A billing method is provided for billing for medical treatments and other services. The method includes capturing a treatment event by electronically scanning, at the time of the treatment event, a machine readable patient identifier (e.g., a bar code) carried by a patient treatment chart. The chart has entered thereon a prescribed treatment schedule. Capture of treatment event is entered into a computerized billing system along with the corresponding patient identifier. The patient treatment ch...