SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRUSTED SELF-BILLING AND PAYMENT FOR UTILITIES INCLUDING AUDIT, VERIFICATION, RECONCILIATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION

摘要

A system for validating service bills includes a first monitoring subsystemassociated with and under the control of a service user for determining usergenerated fee values associated with the amount due a service entity forservice usage over a predetermined billing period. A second monitoringsubsystem communicating with the first monitoring subsystem is associated withand under the control of the service entity for determining service generatedfee values associated with the amount due the service entity for the serviceusage over the predetermined billing period. One of the monitoring subsystemscompares the user and service generated fee values and thereupon validates theamount due determined by one of the user and service generated fee values ifsuch fee values are within a predetermined threshold amount.