Appeal No. 1998-1117
Application No. 08/220,756
which include two or more customer operation stations and one
or more cash handling mechanisms, wherein the cash handling
mechanisms are capable of servicing more than one of the
customer operation stations.
The only claims present in the application are reproduced
as follows:
1. An automatic teller machine for dispensing currency in
response to customers’ requests, said automatic teller machine
comprising:
at least two customer operation stations operable
independently of one another and concurrently with one
another;
at least one cash handling mechanism, said number of cash
handling mechanisms being fewer in number than the number of
said customer operation stations, each of said cash handling
mechanisms including a currency storage portion, a currency
counting portion and a currency transport portion, said cash
counting portion withdrawing a requested amount of currency
from said currency storage portion and counting the withdrawn
currency, said cash transport portion transporting the counted
currency to a cash output port of a selected customer
operation station; and
a controller for determining which of the currency
withdrawal requests made concurrently in a competing manner by
customers to said cash handling mechanism should take priority
over the other currency withdrawal requests and for allowing
said cash handling mechanism to respond to the selected
currency withdrawal request accordingly.
2. An automated teller machine for dispensing currency in
response to customers’ requests, said automated teller machine
comprising:
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