Apparatus, system, and method for bulk currency note deposits
AssigneeNCR Corporation
InventorsGrant Buchanan Fraser, John Mannion
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Abstract
A Self-Service Terminal (SST) that provides valuable media deposit features is enhanced with an apparatus fastened to an outside surface of the SST. The apparatus is adapted to receive an externally provided valuable media cassette and connect/interface a port of the cassette to an unload infeed port. A transaction interface is enhanced to identify the cassette as a source device for obtaining valuable media during a deposit transaction. The SST feeds the valuable media from the externally connected cassette through media validation and transport modules of the SST into cassettes of a safe and the SST returns rejected media for the deposit transaction back through the modules to return rejected media to the externally interfaced cassette.
Claims14
A method, comprising:
- detecting a media cassette interfaced to an apparatus that is externally affixed to an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) during a deposit transaction being performed by a depositor at the ATM;
- and
- processing the deposit transaction by feeding media drawn from the media cassette through a depository/recycling device of the ATM into one or more of an exception bin, an escrow, and second media cassettes associated with a safe of the ATM;
- tabulating a total amount of the media received into the second media cassettes from the media cassette and displaying the total amount on a display of the ATM to the depositor for the deposit transaction;
- tabulating a second total amount of media held in the escrow from the media cassette and displaying the second total amount on the display of the ATM to the depositor as rejected media notes for the deposit transaction.
A method, comprising:
- detecting a media cassette interfaced to an apparatus that is externally affixed to an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) during a deposit transaction being performed by a depositor at the ATM;
- and
- processing the deposit transaction by feeding media drawn from the media cassette through a depository/recycling device of the ATM into one or more of an exception bin, an escrow, and second media cassettes associated with a safe of the ATM;
- displaying a summary for the deposit transaction on a display of the ATM to the depositor for the deposit transaction, wherein displaying further includes providing the summary with an inventory of acceptable notes identified in the media and a second inventory of unacceptable notes identified in the media that were returned from the escrow back to the media cassette for the deposit transaction.
A method, comprising:
- receiving an event raised by an infeed module of Self-Service Terminal (SST) indicating that a depositor has connected a media cassette to an apparatus affixed on an external portion of the SST;
- urging media out of the media cassette onto a transport path that is internal to the SST through the infeed module;
- processing the media over the transport path for a bulk deposit transaction of the depositor, wherein processing further includes routing counterfeit media associated with the bulk deposit transaction into an exception bin and retaining the counterfeit media within the exception bin when the bulk deposit transaction is completed;
- and
- displaying a summary for the bulk deposit transaction on a display of the SST to the depositor and instructing the depositor to remove the media cassette from the apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.