Mei, Inc.

Mars, Incorporated

Bob MacKenzie

Carl Alexander Phillips

David Charles Deaville

Thomas E Shuren

Gaston Baudat

Kenneth B Wood

Neil Young

Gregory John Billington

Didier Rossel

Bill Nichols

Phil Pascarella

Rick Lopez

Peter Camilleri

Stephen Marsh

Mark H Greenawalt

Tracking information in a note handling facility, such as an amusement gaming facility, involves, in some implementations, communications between components of the system to facilitate tracking the location and movement of note acceptors and cassettes for storing notes. Such components can include host machines, note acceptors, cassettes for storing notes, databases, and/or note counting machines. RF tag chips can be embedded in or mounted to some of the components to facilitate the communications. RF tag readers can be provided at appropriate locations within the facility to facilitate reading information from and writing information to the RF tag chips.

Tracking information in a note handling facility

An indicator, such as an alarm or warning, is generated to indicate that a document storage cassette attached to a document handling device (e.g., a currency validator) has reached a particular capacity or is approaching its full capacity.

Currency cassette capacity monitoring and reporting

Techniques include sensing electric signals from an actuator during a document stacking operation and determining whether an abnormal event has occurred based on the sensed signals. The techniques may find particular applicability, for example, to document acceptors that include piston-type stackers driven by a direct current motor.

Document stacker with fault detection

A method and apparatus for securing communications in a currency-handling machine. The method includes generating an encrypted transaction message based on a bill acceptor transaction event, communicating the encrypted transaction message to a transaction controller, decrypting the encrypted transaction message and enabling the bill acceptor to accept bills.

Secure communications for a currency handling machine

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