US 11,895,274 B1Granted

Apparatus and method for user configuration and reporting of virtual services

Assignee8x8, Inc.

InventorsTimothy Britt, Bryan Martin, Christopher Peters

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Abstract

Various example implementations are directed to systems, circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing virtual computing services. According to an example embodiment, a system includes a set of computing servers configured to provide a respective set of virtual servers for each of a plurality of accounts. The system also includes a processing circuit communicatively coupled to the set of computing servers. For each of the plurality of accounts, the processing circuit provides a mechanism for an authorized user of the account to select options for reporting usage of the respective set of virtual servers. The processing circuit also monitors use of the respective set of virtual servers for the account and generates invoices for use of the respective set of virtual servers according to the selected options.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method comprising:

via computing-server circuitry including a set of virtual servers (“the virtual servers”) associated with a plurality of accounts, for each of the plurality of accounts:
remotely connecting to and running a software-implemented application on a computer associated with the account and through which a user of the account provisions certain resources, wherein the software-implemented application enables the user to specify the certain resources including different data communications services and including at least one of the virtual servers and computing resources linked to the set of virtual servers;
selecting options for reporting use of the set of virtual servers including usage of the different data communications services by a set of users of the account, responsive to input by an authorized user of the account;
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monitoring use of the set of virtual servers and the usage of the data communications services provided for the account and, in response, generating reports according to the selected options on the use of the certain resources and the different data communications services according to subscription settings of the account.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/104,700Filed 1 Feb 2023 · continuation
Priority: 24 Apr 2014
Granted: 6 Feb 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

H04M 7/0084
Network operation, administration, maintenance, or provisioning: network monitoring; Error detection; Error recovery; Network testing
H04L 41/22
Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks: comprising specially…
H04M
Telephonic communication
H04L
Digital communication

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Application61/983,792Us provisional application · filed 24 Apr 2014
Application14/578,609Parent of this continuation · filed 22 Dec 2014
Application16/547,314Parent of this continuation · filed 21 Aug 2019
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