NETWORK SERVICE PROVIDER PLATFORM FOR SUPPORTING USAGE SENSITIVE BILLING AND OPERATION SERVICES

The present invention provides a platform for supporting usage based and usage sensitive billing and operation services and systems for network service providers. The platform provides an environment that supports the collection of statistics and call records from various network (voice, data, etc.) elements, validation of the data, conversion of the data into a normalized format, and the configuration of a core provisioning process for rating the data and generating the appropriate billing charges.