Automated transaction machine system

US6607081B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• DIEBOLD, INC. · US

Inventors

• H. Thomas Graef · Bolivar, US
• William D. Beskitt · Canton, US
• Damon J. Blackford · Akron, US
• Dale Blackson · Canton, US
• Robert Bowser · Cary, US
• Keith A. Drescher · Olympia, US
• Jeffrey Eastman · North Canton, US
• Matthew Force · Uniontown, US
• Sean Haney · North Canton, US
• Michael J. Harty · Canton, US
• Dale Horan · Indianapolis, US
• Andrew Junkins · Round Rock, US
• Edward L. Laskowski · Seven Hills, US
• Ashok Modi · Canton, US
• Mark Owens · Louisville, US
• Mike Ryan · Canton, US
• Bill Schadt · Wilmington, US
• David B. Schultz · Henderson, US
• Mike Theriault · Canton, US
• Mark D. Smith · Panama City, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 23, 2001
• Grant date: Aug 19, 2003
• Expiry date: Jul 23, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S209/942
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An automated banking machine can identify and store documents such as currency bills received by a user. The machine can then selectively recover documents from storage and dispense them to other users. Identification devices can identify the type and character of a document, and distinguish genuine documents, such as genuine currency bills, from unidentifiable or suspect documents. Each received document can be judged as either acceptable or unacceptable. Output related to the judging can be presented to the user prior to a document leaving the machine. Subsequently, responsive to receiving user authorization to deposit the acceptable documents, the acceptable documents can be stored in the machine and the unacceptable documents returned to the user.