RF communication of data between currency canister and automated banking machine

US7735723B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Diebold Self-Service Systems, Division of Diebold, Incorporated · US

Inventors

• Matthew Force · Uniontown, US
• H. Thomas Graef · Bolivar, US
• Robert Bowser · Cary, US
• Jeffrey Eastman · North Canton, US
• Michael J. Harty · Canton, US
• Andrew Junkins · Round Rock, US
• Michael E. Lindroos · Norton, US
• Mark Owens · Louisville, US
• Mike R. Ryan · Canton, US
• Alan Looney · Chagrin Falls, US
• Roy Shirah · North Canton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 10, 2008
• Grant date: Jun 15, 2010
• Expiry date: Nov 10, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2701/1912
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An automated canister reloading machine is able to reload a currency canister removed from an ATM. The reloading machine includes a supply of currency notes. The reloading machine can transfer currency notes from the supply into a storage area of the canister. The canister includes a memory that can store data representative of information concerning the canister, such as data representative of the type and number of currency notes held in the canister. The reloading machine is able to update the canister memory.