Automated transaction system and method

US6666374B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• DIEBOLD, INC. · US

Inventors

• Patrick C. Green · North Canton, US
• Mark D. Smith · Panama City, US
• Natarajan Ramachandran · Uniontown, US
• Daniel J. Delaney · Pinckney, US
• David A. Barker · Walnut Creek, US
• Franklin M. Theriault · Canton, US
• Elizabeth Herrera · North Canton, US
• Jeffrey A. Hill · Canton, US
• Mark A. Douglass · North Canton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 29, 2002
• Grant date: Dec 23, 2003
• Expiry date: Aug 29, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F19/205
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An automated transaction system includes an automated transaction machine (10) for carrying out banking transactions. The machine includes a plurality of customer stations (16, 18, 20) at which customers may conduct transactions. Each of the transactions requested by customers is carried out using a set of transaction function devices (34) positioned within or adjacent to the machine housing. The robotic item handling device (42) is included among the transaction function devices and enables moving items between the customer stations and the transaction function devices included in the machine. The machine is enabled to carry out transactions for multiple users simultaneously. The machine is also readily configured to add and delete transaction function devices, thereby more readily changing the types of transactions which may be conducted.