Currency acceptors
AssigneeMars, Incorporated
InventorChristian Voser
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Abstract
A transaction system comprises multiple currency acceptors which can detect potential performance problems and send signals to a server. The server collects performance data and analyses it to determine the likelihood that common problems are caused by an external influence. The server can also analyse data from the acceptors to provide re-configuration data, for example modified measurement criteria used to classify currency articles.
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A method of monitoring the operation of a group of currency acceptors in a transaction system in which performance data from the acceptors is analyzed to determine whether an aspect of the performance of a plurality of acceptors differs in a similar way from an expected distribution, thereby indicating that external influences are likely to have caused that performance difference.
A method of operating a transaction system which comprises a plurality of currency acceptors, the method comprising installing the acceptors in host machines, performing individual transactions using the machines, collecting performance data from the acceptors, performing a statistical analysis on the performance data from the acceptors, deriving re-configuration data for at least one acceptor as a result of the statistical analysis and re-configuring said at least one acceptor on the basis of the re-configuration data.
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