Cash dispensing automated banking machine with GPS

US8348151B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Diebold Self-Service Systems · US

Inventors

• James Block · North Lawrence, US
• H. Thomas Graef · Bolivar, US
• Natarajan Ramachandran · Uniontown, US
• Jeffery M. Enright · Akron, US
• Dale H. Blackson · Highland Heights, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 5, 2012
• Grant date: Jan 8, 2013
• Expiry date: Mar 5, 2032

Classification

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

Abstract

Automated banking machines include a Global Positioning System (GPS). The machines can transmit their GPS location reading to a service center. The service center can receive through a customer's cell phone, a customer request for directions to the nearest cash dispensing machine that does not have a transaction fee. The customer request can include account data and GPS location of the cell phone. The service center can determine from the account data which financial networks would not cause the customer to be assessed a transaction fee for a cash withdrawal. The service center can then determine from the GPS locations of the machines in these financial networks, which machine is geographically closest to the cell phone's GPS location. Directions to this nearest automated banking machine are then sent to the cell phone.