Automated banking machine apparatus and system
View Patent ↗An automated banking machine ( 12 ) is operative to conduct transactions in response to HTML documents and TCP/IP messages exchanged with a local computer system ( 14 ) through an intranet ( 16 ), as well as in response to messages exchanged with foreign servers ( 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 96 ) in a wide area network ( 18 ). The banking machine includes a computer ( 34 ) having an HTML document handling portion ( 76, 80, 82 ). The HTML document handling portion is operative to communicate through a proxy server ( 88 ), with a home HTTP server ( 90 ) in the intranet or the foreign servers in the wide area network. The computer further includes a device application portion ( 84 ) which interfaces with the HTML document handling portion and dispatches messages to operate devices ( 36 ) in the automated banking machine. The devices include a sheet dispenser mechanism ( 42 ) which dispenses currency as well as other transaction devices.
1. A method comprising:
(a) operating computer software in at least one computer, the computer software including at least one mark up language document, the at least one mark up language document including at least one currency sheet dispense instruction,
(b) processing the at least one mark up language document with an automated teller machine (ATM), wherein the ATM includes at least one currency sheet and a currency sheet dispenser operative to dispense the at least one currency sheet,
(c) dispensing the at least one currency sheet from the ATM responsive to the at least one currency sheet dispense instruction included in the at least one mark up language document processed in (b).
2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the at least one computer comprises at least one remote computer remotely located from the ATM, wherein the ATM includes at least one ATM computer, wherein the at least one remote computer is operative to communicate with the at least one ATM computer, wherein the at least one ATM computer includes software comprising a browser, and wherein (b) includes processing the at least one mark up language document through operation of the browser.
3. The method according to claim 2 wherein the at least one ATM computer is operative to communicate with the at least one remote computer via Internet communication, and wherein (b) includes accessing the at least one mark up language document via the Internet communication.
4. The method according to claim 3 wherein the at least one mark up language document includes at least one HTML document, and wherein (b) includes accessing the at least one HTML document via the Internet communication.
5. The method according to claim 4 wherein the at least one HTML document includes the at least one currency sheet dispense instruction, wherein in (b) the ATM is operative to process the at least one HTML document, and wherein (c) includes dispensing the at least one currency sheet from the ATM responsive to processing the at least one HTML document.
6. Apparatus comprising:
an automated teller machine (ATM),
wherein the ATM includes at least one currency sheet,
wherein the ATM includes a currency sheet dispenser,
wherein the currency sheet dispenser is operative to dispense the at least one currency sheet from the ATM,
wherein the ATM includes at least one ATM computer,
wherein the at least one ATM computer includes Internet access,
wherein the at least one ATM computer is operative to control the currency sheet dispenser,
wherein the at least one ATM computer includes markup language document handling software,
wherein the markup language document handling software includes a browser,
wherein the browser is operative to access a markup language document via the Internet,
wherein the at least one ATM computer is operative to process an accessed markup language document,
at least one remote computer,
wherein the at least one remote computer is remotely located from the ATM,
wherein the at least one remote computer is in operative connection with the ATM via the Internet,
computer software adapted to operate in the at least one remote computer,
wherein the computer software includes at least one markup language document,
wherein the at least one markup language document includes at least one currency sheet dispense instruction,
wherein the at least one markup language document is accessible by the browser,
wherein the browser is operative to access the at least one markup language document via the Internet,
wherein the at least one ATM computer causes the currency sheet dispenser to dispense the at least one currency sheet responsive to at least one currency sheet dispense instruction in at least one Internet-accessed markup language document processed by the at least one ATM computer.
7. A system including:
at least one ATM including a browser operating therein and a currency sheet dispenser,
at least one computer remote from the at least one ATM and in operative connection therewith,
computer software adapted to operate in the at least one computer including at least one mark up language document, the at least one mark up language document including at least one device instruction, wherein the at least one ATM causes dispensing of at least one currency sheet from the currency sheet dispenser therein responsive to receiving the at least one mark up language document.
8. Computer software on a computer readable medium, wherein the computer software is adapter to operate in at least one computer in a system including:
at least one automated teller machine (ATM) including at least one ATM computer, at least one currency sheet, and at least one currency sheet dispenser operative to dispense the at least one currency sheet;
at least one remote computer remotely located from the at least one ATM, wherein the computer software is adapted to operate in the at least one remote computer, wherein the computer software comprises at least one mark up language document including at least one currency sheet dispense instruction, wherein the at least one mark up language document is adapted to be processed through operation of the at least one ATM computer, wherein the at least one currency sheet dispense instruction causes the at least one ATM to dispense the at least one currency sheet therefrom through operation of the at least one currency sheet dispenser, responsive to processing the at least one mark up language document.