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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2014
Filed:
May. 18, 2004
Gregory John Billington, Reading, GB;
Andrew Simon Pope, Reading, GB;
Gregory John Billington, Reading, GB;
Andrew Simon Pope, Reading, GB;
MEI, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
A money handling mechanismhas a first port Pfor connection to a machine controllerand a second port Pto which further money handling mechanisms can be connected. Different types of mechanism, such as a card acceptoror a bill validatorcan be connected to the second port Pover a bus B. The first port Pmay be connected to one of several interface adapterstoand the communications protocol used is selected accordingly. If the first port Puses the same protocol as the second port Psignals are passed transparently between the first port Pand the second port PSignals from the additional mechanism may be modified to be recognisable by the controllerThe money handling mechanismmay convert between the denominations of currencies represented in the protocols over the first and second ports Pand P