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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 20, 1998
Barrie Clark, Dundee, GB;
Robert D. Andrew, Dundee, GB;
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Abstract
In an ATM, bank notes remaining within currency cassettes of the cash dispenser are transferred to an auxiliary storage device before the cassettes are removed from the ATM and replaced by full cassettes during a replenishment sequence, so as to avoid handling of non-empty cassettes and to improve the efficiency of the replenishment procedure. The transfer of notes may take place during the actual replenishment sequence, the cassettes containing the highest denomination bank notes and those containing the least number of notes having precedence. Alternatively, the transfer of notes may occur automatically during normal operation of the ATM, when the number of notes within a cassette reaches a predetermined level. In subsequent cash withdrawal transactions, the notes stored in the auxiliary storage device are dispensed to customers in preference to the note stored in the currency cassettes