US 11,900,753 B1Granted

Universal removeable cassette array with cash rebalancing

AssigneeWells Fargo Bank, N.A.

InventorsChristian Mande, Darren Goetz, Frank Digangi, Dennis E. Montenegro

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Abstract

A removable cassette housing for rebalancing bills among storage cassettes is disclosed. The removable cassette housing includes a first docking apparatus and a second docking apparatus structured to receive a first storage cassette and a second storage cassette, respectively, a transport apparatus operatively coupled to the docking apparatuses and a computing system. The transport apparatus is structured to facilitate transferring the bills among the storage cassettes. The computing system is structured to generate a first storage data packet and a second storage data packet associated with the first storage cassette and the second storage cassette, respectively. The computing system is also structured to generate a rebalancing instruction based on at least one of the first storage data packet and the second storage data packet. The cassette housing is structured to cause the transport apparatus to transport bills based on a rebalancing instruction.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A removable universal cassette housing comprising:

a first docking element structured to receive a first universal cassette, the first universal cassette structured to retrievably store a first quantity of banknotes;
a second docking element structured to receive a second universal cassette, the second universal cassette structured to retrievably store a second quantity of banknotes;
a transport apparatus structured to facilitate transferring one or more banknotes between the first universal cassette and the second universal cassette;
a housing computing system comprising a processing circuit including at least one processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the housing computing system to perform operations comprising:
generating a first storage data packet responsive to the first universal cassette docking with the first docking element, the first storage data packet comprising information about banknotes stored in the first universal cassette;
generating a second storage data packet responsive to the second universal cassette docking with the second docking element, the second storage data packet comprising information about banknotes stored in the second universal cassette;
generating a rebalancing instruction based on at least one of the first storage data packet and the second storage data packet, the rebalancing instruction relating to a first set of banknotes to transfer from the first universal cassette to the second universal cassette and a second set of banknotes to transfer from the second universal cassette to the first universal cassette;
causing the transport apparatus to initiate a transfer based on the rebalancing instruction;
and
in response to completing the transfer, generating a notification indicating that the transfer is completed.

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A method of rebalancing banknotes in a transaction system, the method comprising:

docking a first universal cassette with a first docking element of a removable universal cassette housing, the first universal cassette structured to retrievably store a first quantity of banknotes, wherein the removable universal cassette housing is removable;
docking a second universal cassette with a second docking element of the removable universal cassette housing, the second universal cassette structured to retrievably store a second quantity of banknotes;
generating, by a housing computing system, a first storage data packet comprising information about banknotes stored in the first universal cassette;
generating, by the housing computing system, a second storage data packet comprising information about the banknotes stored in the second universal cassette;
generating, by the housing computing system, a rebalancing instruction generated based on at least one of the first storage data packet and the second storage data packet, the rebalancing instruction relating to a first set of banknotes to transfer from the first universal cassette to the second universal cassette and a second set of banknotes to transfer from the second universal cassette to the first universal cassette;
causing, by the housing computing system, a transport apparatus to initiate a transfer based on the rebalancing instruction;
and
in response to completing the transfer, generating a notification indicating that the transfer is completed.

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Non-transitory computer readable media having computer executable instructions embodied therein that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations for rebalancing a transaction system, the operations comprising:

communicatively coupling the computing system to a first universal cassette responsive to the first universal cassette docking with a first docking element of a removable universal cassette housing, the first universal cassette structured to retrievably store a first quantity of banknotes;
communicatively coupling the computing system to a second universal cassette responsive to the second universal cassette docking with a second docking element of the removable universal cassette housing, the second universal cassette structured to retrievably store a second quantity of banknotes;
generating a first storage data packet, the first storage data packet comprising information about banknotes stored in the first universal cassette including a number of banknotes stored in the first universal cassette;
generating a second storage data packet, the second storage data packet comprising information about banknotes stored in the second universal cassette including a number of banknotes stored in the second universal cassette;
generating a rebalancing instruction, the rebalancing instruction based on at least one of the first storage data packet and the second storage data packet, the rebalancing instruction relating to a first set of banknotes to transfer from the first universal cassette to the second universal cassette and a second set of banknotes to transfer from the second universal cassette to the first universal cassette,
causing a transport apparatus of the removable universal cassette housing to initiate a transfer based on the rebalancing instruction;
and
in response to completing the transfer, transmitting a notification to a remote computing system.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.