The Toronto-Dominion Bank

Giovanni Favretto

A Warren Pratten

Graham Allan Anderson

Tristan Rodzen

Anthony Wayne Miles

Robert John Farmer

Chico Chi-Kuo Lam

David H Schleicher

An automated teller machine comprises a communications module; an image module; a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, configure the processor to receive a first cheque for deposit; engage the image module to capture an image of the first cheque; send, via the communications module and to a server computer system, a signal that includes the image of the first cheque for acceptance; send, via the communications module and to an automated teller machine switch, a signal that includes a request for transaction authorization approval based on the first cheque; receive, via the communications module and from the server computer system, a signal that includes an indication of acceptance of the image of the first cheque; receive, via the communications module and from the automated teller machine switch, a signal that includes an indication of approval of the request for the transaction authorization based on the first cheque; and responsive to receiving the signal that includes the indication of acceptance of the image of the first cheque and the signal that includes the indication of approval of the request for the transaction authorization, return the first cheque.

System and method for real-time cheque processing and return at an automated teller machine

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Newmarket, Canada

Giovanni Favretto