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US 2014/0208157 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for redundancy in an atm using hot swap hardware underlying a virtual machine
AssigneeBank of America Corporation
InventorsNicholas J. Munson, David W. Twigg, Daniel J. Farinella
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing redundancy in an Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) is provided. Application software may be run on top of a virtual environment such as a virtual machine and/or a virtual disk environment. Should a software component fail, the virtual environment will “crash” but the ATM hardware and operating system will remain intact. If the software is fatally flawed—e.g., due to a faulty “upgrade” the older version may be “rolled back” from a previously stored virtual environment.
Claims8
An automatic teller machine comprising:
- at least one computer comprising:
- at least one central processing unit;
- at least one memory;
- and
- at least one device interface;
- at least one device connected to the device interface;
- and
- at least one software program running on the at least one computer comprising at least one virtual environment, wherein a failure in the at least one virtual environment does not cause a failure of the automatic teller machine.
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