Automated teller machine card ejection mechanism
AssigneeCapital One Services, LLC
InventorsStephen Young, Matthew Kolesaric, Michael Kidd
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Abstract
In some implementations, an automated teller machine (ATM) may accept a card. The ATM may eject the card at a first time. The ATM may retract the card based on a determination that a threshold amount of time has elapsed from the first time and that the card has not been removed. The ATM may eject the card at a second time after retracting the card. The ATM may retract the card based on a determination that the threshold amount of time has elapsed from the second time and that the card has not been removed. The ATM may provide the card to a card storage compartment of the ATM after retracting the card and based on a determination that the card has been ejected or retracted a threshold number of times.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- retracting, by a component of a device, a physical object;
- determining, by the device and before the physical object is removed from the component, a number of times that the physical object has been ejected from the component or has been retracted by the component;
- ejecting, by the device, the physical object using the component when:
- the number of times that the physical object has been ejected from the component does not satisfy an ejection threshold, or
- the number of times that the physical object has been retracted by the component does not satisfy a retraction threshold;
- and
- retaining, by the device, the physical object using the component when:
- the number of times that the physical object has been ejected from the component satisfies the ejection threshold, or
- the number of times that the physical object has been retracted from the component satisfies the retraction threshold.
A device comprising:
- one or more memories;
- and
- one or more processors configured to:
- determine, after a physical object is retracted from a component of the device and before the physical object is removed from the component, a number of times that the physical object has been ejected from the component or has been retracted by the component;
- eject the physical object using the component when:
- the number of times that the physical object has been ejected from the component does not satisfy a threshold, or
- the number of times that the physical object has been retracted by the component does not satisfy the threshold;
- and
- retain the physical object using the component when:
- the number of times that the physical object has been ejected from the component satisfies the threshold, or
- the number of times that the physical object has been retracted from the component satisfies the threshold.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions, the set of instructions comprising:
- one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a device, cause the device to:
- determine, before a physical object is removed from a component of the device, a number of times that the physical object has been ejected from the component or has been retracted by the component;
- eject the physical object using the component when:
- the number of times that the physical object has been ejected from the component does not satisfy a threshold, or
- the number of times that the physical object has been retracted by the component does not satisfy the threshold;
- and
- retain the physical object using the component when:
- the number of times that the physical object has been ejected from the component satisfies the threshold, or
- the number of times that the physical object has been retracted from the component satisfies the threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.