Appeal No. 1997-0200
Application No. 08/202,860
processing system. More particularly, Appellants indicate at
pages 8 and 9 of the specification that a relative
relationship between differing characteristics which may give
rise to balancing errors is established by assigning weighted
values to each characteristic. A set of items in an out-of-
balance transaction is examined and ranked as to being a
likely source of error in accordance with the weighted
characteristics.
Claim 28 is illustrative of the invention and reads as
follows:
28. An improved method for balancing an out-of balance
transaction in a check image processing system, wherein one or
more of the items in the out-of balance transaction has an
associated amount and may be the source of the error, the
method comprising the steps of:
associating a different one of a plurality of weights
with each of a plurality of different characteristics, wherein
each of said plurality of different characteristics indicates
a different type of error which may be causing the out-of-
balance condition, and each of said plurality of weights
indicates a different relative likelihood that said each of
said plurality of different characteristics from said
associating step is the source of the error in the out-of-
balance transaction;
identifying which of said plurality of different
characteristics are exhibited by each of the items;
detecting which ones of the items are suspect items,
wherein a suspect item is an item for which at least one of
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