Automated banking machine configuration method

US6970846B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• DIEBOLD, INC. · US

Inventors

• Jay Paul Drummond · Massillon, US
• Bob A. Cichon · Massillon, US
• David Weis · Ashland, US
• James Church · Kent, US
• Mikal R. Gilger · Wadsworth, US
• Jagadesh Myana · North Canton, US
• Todd Blakeslee · Canton, US
• Aravind Dongara · North Canton, US
• Mark A. Moales · North Canton, US
• Radhika Bodapatla · Fairborn, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 14, 2000
• Grant date: Nov 29, 2005
• Expiry date: Nov 2, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L69/16
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method for visual programming an automated transaction machine (12). The method includes the creation of terminal directors (225) that generally correspond to transactions performed by the automated transaction machine. The terminal directors are programmed by visually creating associations (238) between a plurality of ATM objects (230, 232) in a work space (224). Exemplary ATM objects include an authorization object (260), a back stage control object (262), a card reader object (264), a customer profile object (266), a depositor object (268), a dispenser object (270), keypad object (272), a logic object (274), a OCS object (276), a presenter object (278), a PIN entry object (280), a printer object (282), a sync object (284), and a transaction data object (286). The customer profile object is operative to retrieve customer profile information responsive to a determined customer of a person using the ATM. A portion of the exemplary ATM objects are operative to interface with a device interface layer (728) for communicating with physical hardware devices (724, 726). The device interface layer is operative to retrieve rules (721) and capability features from a data store (720) for a…