Appeal 2006-2085
Application 09/810,629
1 and credits, and also information segregated or sorted by a region,
2 organization, or department. This list is not meant to be exhaustive.”
3 (Brockman, p. 5, ¶ [0051].
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5 21. Brockman states “[t]The system may further include software
6 capable of verifying the billing costs based on the telecommunications
7 usage data, the billing cost, and the rate plan. As depicted in FIG. 3,
8 the system includes customer billing 14, customer information
9 database 15, customer information billing consolidation 16, savings
10 and credit databases 12, and work flow tracking 13. The invoices for
11 all sites the client receives are logged and tracked by the computer
12 system of the present invention.” (Brockman, p. 7, ¶ [0063].
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14 22. Brockman states “[t]he telecommunications usage analysis
15 system may report data to customers in standard reports that show
16 cost by site with vendor, service, charge code, etc. The system also
17 may have several standard reports.” (Brockman, p. 7, ¶ [0067].
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19 23. Brockman states “[s]uch telecommunications providers may
20 include national incumbent local exchange carriers (ILEC's),
21 competitive local exchange carriers (LEC's), regional Bell operating
22 companies (RBOC's), such as AT&T, MCI, WorldCom, Bell South,
23 Verizon, Sprint, and Qwest--as well as interexchange carriers (IXC),
24 regional and local telecommunications carriers.” (Brockman, p. 9, ¶
25 [0083].
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27 24. Brockman states “[i]n another form, performance data may
28 include bonus sales data, sales leads generation data, or other relevant
29 business information.” (Brockman, p. 12, ¶ [0106].
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31 25. Brockman states “[b]usiness entity 100 may access both data
32 associations and analyze how its successful sales in the Midwest
33 compare to its successful sales in the Northeast. If business entity's
34 100 successful sales in the Northeast are significantly more than its
35 successful sales in the Midwest, this may indicate that business entity
36 100 needs to increase its use of telecommunications network assets in
37 the Midwest region.” (Brockman, p. 12, ¶ [0108]).
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