Appeal No. 2006-1090
Application No. 09/848,005
BACKGROUND
The invention relates to item transports in financial document processing systems
that serve to receive, process, and sort documents. A typical item transport is quite large
and requires an operator to walk a distance to get from one side or end of the machine to
the other. An operator may be working at one area of the transport when a problem
occurs, requiring the operator to walk to the display area, read an error message, and
proceed to an area of the transport that requires the operator’s attention. The operator
must also walk to the display area to enter commands into the item transport, via a
keyboard or other input device. A need thus exists for a way that, according to
appellant, an operator of a document processing system may receive messages and
enter commands without needing to move to the display area of the system. (Spec. at 1-
2.) Appellant’s invention includes a portable control unit by which the operator may
wirelessly receive messages and enter commands. Representative claims 20 and 25
are reproduced below.
20. A financial document processing system comprising:
a financial document processing transport including (i) means defining a
document transport path along which financial documents can be transported,
and (ii) a first display for allowing an operator to view an operator message which
relates to an exception condition which has occurred along the document
transport path;
a transport controller including (i) means for controlling operation of the
transport, and (ii) means for generating an operator message when an exception
condition occurs along the document transport path;
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