Bizarre Patents
A simulation environment for the sport of boxing utilizing a robotic machine interface system which carries a person.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7370203 | Method for indivisibly modifying a plurality of sites in a microcircuit card non volatile memory, in particular a contactless card A method of connecting a card to a terminal including the following steps: a) on receiving corresponding respective commands from the terminal, it modifies the contents of the card memory by provisionally recording in the card memory each of said interdependent item... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366646 | Fault monitoring and notification system for automated banking machines A system operates to receive status messages from banking machines operating in a network. The messages are received by an event management system operating at least one computer. The computer is in operative connection with a data store. The data store includes inf... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7000778 | Bill handling machine To change a bill storage box for deposit/withdrawal in a bill handling machine to a bill storage box for withdrawal only, a recycling box has conventionally been exchanged with a withdrawal-only box. That is, an extra withdrawal-only box exchanged with a recycling b... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6953150 | Cash dispensing automated banking machine diagnostic device An automated banking machine (10) includes a lockable first fascia portion (20) which when unlocked enables access to a chest lock input device (104), inputs to which enable opening a chest door (18) of the machine. Opening the first fasc... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6789730 | Automated banking machine diagnostic system and method A diagnostic server software component for an automated banking machine is provided. The diagnostic server is operative to periodically retrieve diagnostic messages from a nonvolatile memory of the machine and store the diagnostic messages on the hard drive of the m... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6768975 | Method for simulating operation of an automated banking machine system A method of testing operation of an automated banking machine system is provided. The method may comprise storing in a data store data representative of a simulated automated banking machine, at least one condition which occurs at the machine and at least one action... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6347137 | Methods and apparatus for requesting assistance at a self-checkout terminal The present invention provides a self-checkout terminal having input and output devices for performing a self-checkout process. The input and output devices are controlled and monitored by system software that determines, based on its monitoring of the in... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6301379 | Electronic check presentment systems and methods employing volatile memory datastore access techniques A subsystem and method, employed within an electronic check presentment ("ECP") system and executable on a computer system having volatile and nonvolatile memory and a processor coupled thereto. The subsystem and method establish and maintain a datastore ... | 10/09/2001 |
| 6199755 | Machine data acquistion system and method A machine data acquisition system connected to a machine, for acquiring data on an internal status of the machine, and for use with an IC card having storage. The machine data acquisition system comprises an IC card accepting device which accepts the IC c... | 03/13/2001 |
| 5983197 | Monitoring method and monitoring system for automatic transaction machine Failure information and cash reserve information for each automatic transaction machine 5 are collected at a monitoring center 5. In a dispatch condition table, criteria for making decisions such as a dispatch standby being required when a specific number... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5689579 | Rule-based circuit, method and system for performing item level reconciliation A reconciling circuit for, and method of, reconciling a first database with a second database, the first database containing first item data arranged in records and fields, the second database containing second item data arranged in records and fields. Th... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5563393 | Transaction terminal and portable operator interface device for monitoring the transaction terminal A business system including at least one transaction terminal such as an automated teller machine ATM (10) and an interface device (12) for use by an operator in carrying out maintenance of the ATM (10) or replenishing consumable items used during its ope... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5252813 | Method and apparatus for automatic transaction having card receipt and/or transaction receipt slip issuing mechanism An automatic transaction apparatus for dealing with cash or the like operates by being accessed by the user through the use of a user specific transaction medium card, which is inserted to the apparatus so that information recorded on it is read. In the e... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5101410 | Data transmission system for a portable data storage medium A data transmission arrangement for a portable data storage medium, in which messages are transmitted between an external device and a portable data storage medium at a plurality of times in response to one readout command output from the external device.... | 03/31/1992 |
| 4928230 | Automatic transacting apparatus A paper document transacting apparatus for storing and extracting a paper document into and out of storages through a transporting unit. The apparatus comprises a detector for detecting a transporting condition of the paper document, an indicator for indi... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4734859 | Method and apparatus for handling transaction slips including illegible characters In a transaction processing system in which a plurality of terminal devices are connected to a common transmission line to carry out transactions on the basis of the contents of transaction slips read out by the terminal devices, a transaction can be cont... | 03/29/1988 |
| 4713811 | Automatic mode switching unit for a serial communications data system An automatic switching unit for use in combination with a backup processor and a series communications system such as for a retail store operation, and where the series communications system includes a controller having multiple serial ports, each port be... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4654857 | Digital data processor with high reliability A fualt-tolerant computer system provides information transfers between the units of a computing module, including a processor unit and a memory unit and one or more peripheral control units, on a bus structure common to all the units. Information-handlin... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4650976 | Card processor with fail-safe card return upon power failure This card processor includes an electrical driving means for operating either in a take in mode for conveying a card upon insertion thereof to a determinate position, or in an ejection mode for expelling a taken in card to the outside, and a control means... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4633395 | Method for checking sheets of bills during their production Before travelling through the first printing unit (14), the sheets are provided on one edge with an individual, consecutively numbered code, which is stored in a computer. This edge is cut off at a time of subsequent trimming. Before and after each operat... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4631661 | Fail-safe data processing system A fail-safe multiprocessor system comprises processors connected through a switching unit which forms a data transfer channel between the processors. This switching unit comprises mechanical switches that can selectively connect peripheral units (e.g., di... | 12/23/1986 |
| 4630032 | Apparatus for decoding error-correcting codes An improvement to a Viterbi-type decoder for decoding convolutional error-correcting codes whereby decisions regarding which predecessor state to a given state most probably corresponds to the best path terminating in that given state are stored in associ... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4622670 | Error-correction coding for multilevel transmission system A technique for improving efficiency of error-correction is disclosed for use in a Gray-coded multilevel transmission system and, specifically, in a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) transmission system. To this end, information bits in information bi... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4597083 | Error detection and correction in digital communication systems An error detection and correction system locates and corrects double errors in a received data block word digitally encoded in a Reed-Solomon code (n,K) as coefficient terms of an n-order codeword polynomial in the form ##EQU1## where the coefficient... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4584639 | Computer security system A capability based computer system includes means, called a factory, for allowing two domains to share resources in a secure manner. Factories are special domains which, in combination with corresponding kernel functions, allow a first domain (called a bu... | 04/22/1986 |
| 4577272 | Fault tolerant and load sharing processing system Incoming data messages to a system having a plurality of channels are assigned for processing to one of the channels to share the processing load more or less equally among all the channels of the system. Each channel receives messages by means of a commu... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4359630 | Apparatus for depositing and/or withdrawing bank-notes by means of credit cards The apparatus is controlled by a credit card following customer identification, and comprises a series of peripheral units operable by a central unit 10 in accordance with a determined program. The apparatus is normally supplied by mains voltage, and comp... | 11/16/1982 |
