Document Processing System Using Full Image Scanning
AssigneeCummins-Allison Corp.
InventorsJohn E. Jones, William J. Jones, Douglas U. Mennie, Paul A. Jones
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Abstract
A system for tracking currency bills comprises a currency scanning device. The scanning device includes a sensor that retrieves currency identification characteristic information of each bill processed. The currency identification characteristic information permits the unique identification of each bill processed. The system further comprises a customer identification means and means for associating each processed bill with the customer depositing the bill. Means for identifying the customer (or customer account) associated with a particular processed bill after the deposit transaction has been completed is also included in the system.
Claims21
1-67. (canceled)
A method of processing a deposit transaction comprising:
- imaging documents associated with the deposit transaction using a customer document processing system, the documents including a plurality of currency bills;
- generating electronic data associated with the imaged documents;
- making the generated data electronically available to a financial institution;
- sending the plurality of currency bills to the financial institution;
- and
- receiving a notice that the sent plurality of currency bills was reconciled by the financial institution.
A method of processing a deposit transaction comprising:
- imaging documents to be deposited in a financial institution in a deposit transaction including a plurality of currency bills using a customer document processing system to generate one or more electrical signals from which image data can be derived, the image data being reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of each document;
- generating deposit information associated with the deposit transaction from the image data;
- making the generated deposit information associated with the deposit transaction electronically available to a financial institution;
- and
- receiving a notice that provisional credit associated with the deposit transaction has been given by the financial institution.
A document processing device for reconciling a customer deposit transaction, the document processing device comprising:
- one or more input receptacles configured to receive a plurality of physical documents including currency bills;
- a transport system configured to transport the received plurality of physical documents from the one or more input receptacles to one or more output receptacles;
- an image scanner configured to image the received plurality of physical documents;
- a controller configured to generate, from the images, deposit information associated with the deposit transaction;
- a first communications interface coupled to the controller, the first communications interface configured to transmit the generated deposition information associated with the deposit transaction to a network;
- and
- the first communications interface or a second communications interface configured to receive from the network a notice from a financial institution that a credit associated with the deposit transaction has been received.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.