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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2005
Tsutomu Sawa, Fujisawa, JP;
Tsutomu Sawa, Fujisawa, JP;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A management apparatus associated detachably with a cash cassette is provided for managing the cash cassette storing bills or coins for transactions with users at an automatic teller machine. The cash cassette includes an error information recording area for recording a type of error in the event of occurrence of the error, and a count information recording area for recording the number of bills or coins expected to be in the cash cassette. Based on the information acquired from the error information recording area, the management apparatus determines whether a predetermined type of error has occurred. When determining that such a type of error has occurred, the management apparatus outputs an instruction to management staff to count the number of bills or coins in the cash cassette, or when determining that such a type of error has not occurred, it outputs information from the count information recording area.