Method for checking the correct processing of bank notes
AssigneeGAO Gesellschaft fur Automation und Organisation mbH
InventorWilhelm Hell
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for checking the correct processing of bank notes in automatic bank note sorters for sorting certain amounts of money into different categories according to given criteria, whereby partial amounts are destroyed if necessary, and a log is prepared, after a given amount of money has been processed or after a certain unit of time, to record information about the processed bank notes, among other things, and the log additionally contains at least one authenticity marking calculated from given log data and clearly related to the data included in the calculation.
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A method for checking correct processing of bank notes in an automatic bank note sorter, comprising:
- introducing bank notes into said bank note sorter;
- sorting said bank notes into categories;
- preparing and printing a log report in accordance with said log data, including calculating, generating and printing an encrypted authenticity marking on said log report, said authenticity marking being related to said log data by an algorithm.
A method for checking the correct processing of bank notes in automatic bank note sorters, comprising:
- introducing bank notes into a bank note sorter,
- processing by sorting said bank notes into categories,
- preparing and printing a log containing information about results of the processing of the bank notes,
- calculating at least one authenticity marking based upon the information contained in said log,
- storing said at least one authenticity marking in said bank note sorter, and
- printing said at least one authenticity marking on said log so that the information contained int he log may be verified by recalculating the authenticity marking.
A method for checking the correct processing of bank notes in automatic bank note sorters, comprising:
- introducing bank notes into a bank note sorter,
- processing by sorting said bank notes into categories,
- preparing and printing a log containing information about results of the processing of the bank notes,
- calculating at least one authenticity marking based upon the information contained in said log,
- printing said at least one authenticity marking on said log so that the information contained int he log may be verified by recalculating the authenticity marking,
- supplying the information contained in the log, via an interface of the bank note sorter, to a unit connected to the bank note sorter,
- automatically recalculating the authenticity marking using the unit, and
- comparing the recalculated authenticity marking of the calculating means with the authenticity marking printed on the log.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.