Patents by Inventor Steven Lotito

Steven Lotito has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • MULTI-TENANT EXTENSIBLE BILLING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20220222717
    Abstract: Receive, by a price calculation microservice, tenant user input from a particular tenant of a multi-tenant system. Generate, by the price calculation microservice, a particular charge model based on the tenant user input. Detect, by a usage microservice, a usage event associated with a customer of the particular tenant of the multi-tenant system. Receive, by a rating microservice, a rating request, the rating request being received in response to the detecting the usage event. Calculate, by the price calculation microservice in response to the receiving the rating request, a usage charge for the usage event based on the particular charge model. Store, by the rating microservice, the usage charge. Generate an invoice based on the usage charge stored by the rating microservice. Provide the invoice to the customer of the particular tenant of the multi-tenant system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Xinxin Wang, Steven Lotito, Song Cui, Pilar Loren Pickering, Xin Yu Liu, David Kenneth Magill, Kan Shun Sit, Zhiguo Lu, Chen Xin Sun
  • Multi-tenant extensible billing system
    Patent number: 11288715
    Abstract: Receive, by a price calculation microservice, tenant user input from a particular tenant of a multi-tenant system. Generate, by the price calculation microservice, a particular charge model based on the tenant user input. Detect, by a usage microservice, a usage event associated with a customer of the particular tenant of the multi-tenant system. Receive, by a rating microservice, a rating request, the rating request being received in response to the detecting the usage event. Calculate, by the price calculation microservice in response to the receiving the rating request, a usage charge for the usage event based on the particular charge model. Store, by the rating microservice, the usage charge. Generate an invoice based on the usage charge stored by the rating microservice. Provide the invoice to the customer of the particular tenant of the multi-tenant system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Zuora, Inc.
    Inventors: Xinxin Wang, Steven Lotito, Song Cui, Pilar Loren Pickering, Xin Yu Liu, David Kenneth Magill, Kan Shun Sit, Zhiguo Lu, Chen Xin Sun
  • MULTI-TENANT EXTENSIBLE BILLING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200043064
    Abstract: Receive, by a price calculation microservice, tenant user input from a particular tenant of a multi-tenant system. Generate, by the price calculation microservice, a particular charge model based on the tenant user input. Detect, by a usage microservice, a usage event associated with a customer of the particular tenant of the multi-tenant system. Receive, by a rating microservice, a rating request, the rating request being received in response to the detecting the usage event. Calculate, by the price calculation microservice in response to the receiving the rating request, a usage charge for the usage event based on the particular charge model. Store, by the rating microservice, the usage charge. Generate an invoice based on the usage charge stored by the rating microservice. Provide the invoice to the customer of the particular tenant of the multi-tenant system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Zuora, Inc.
    Inventors: Xinxin Wang, Steven Lotito, Song Cui, Pilar Loren Pickering, Xin Yu Liu, David Kenneth Magill, Kan Shun Sit, Zhiguo Lu, Chen Xin Sun