US 11,200,605 B2 · Systems and methods for telecommunication expense management

Abstract

Systems and Methods for telecommunication expense management are provided. A distributed platform including a user support site, multiple user databases and customized user applications is provided to enable organizations to better manage their telecommunication services and expenses. In an embodiment, a method for electronically processing telecommunication invoices includes importing the telecommunication invoices, extracting elements from the imported invoices and performing reasonability tests on the imported invoices. The reasonability test includes conducting an automated comparison against established criteria that may be customized by users. The method includes generating one or more interactive reports that enable an organization to effectively manage its telecommunication services.

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Dependent claims

A method for electronically processing telecommunications invoices from one or more vendors using a computing device deployed in a distributed computing environment, comprising the steps of:

(a) importing a plurality of telecommunications invoices into the computing device, where each invoice is formatted in a vendor specific format;
(b) extracting elements from the imported telecommunications invoices by the computing device by applying a set of vendor mapping rules to vendor specific nomenclature for elements to transform the vendor specific nomenclature to categories that are comparable;
(c) importing information relating to cost centers from one or more human resource systems into the computing device;
(d) correlating the information relating to cost centers with the extracted elements from the imported telecommunications invoices by the computing device;
(e) evaluating the telecommunication invoices by the computing device on an element basis against established criteria and determining whether a cost center associated with an element among the extracted elements is active;
and
(f) generating a report by the computing device that identifies at least one element billing exception.

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