Automated banking machine apparatus and system

US6963333B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• DIEBOLD, INC. · US

Inventors

• Jay Paul Drummond · Massillon, US
• Dale H. Blackson · Highland Heights, US
• Bob A. Cichon · Massillon, US
• Joseph C. Ess · North Canton, US
• Mark A. Moales · North Canton, US
• David Weis · Ashland, US
• Mark D. Smith · Panama City, US
• James Church · Kent, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 17, 1998
• Grant date: Nov 8, 2005
• Expiry date: Nov 17, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F19/20
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An automated banking machine (12) is operative to conduct transactions in response to HTML documents and TCP/IP messages exchanged with a local computer system (14) through an intranet (16), as well as in response to messages exchanged with foreign servers (20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 96) in a wide area network (18). The banking machine includes a computer (34) having an HTML document handling portion (76, 80, 82). The HTML document handling portion is operative to communicate through a proxy server (88), with a home HTTP server (90) in the intranet or the foreign servers in the wide area network. The computer flurther includes a device application portion (84) which interfaces with the HTML document handling portion and dispatches messages to operate devices (36) in the automated banking machine. The devices include a sheet dispenser mechanism (42) which dispenses currency as well as other transaction devices. The device application portion communicates with a device interfacing software portion (64) in the banking machine through a device server (92) in the intranet. The device server maintains local control over the devices in the banking machine including the sheet dispenser. The banki…