Patents by Inventor Mark A. Douglass

Mark A. Douglass has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7954703
    Abstract: A banking system operates to cause financial transfers responsive to card data read from data bearing records by a card reader. The system includes at least one automated banking machine comprising a cash dispenser. The system is operative during a cash dispense transaction request to receive through an automated banking machine, user input of data corresponding to a mobile phone number. The system is operative to generate a security code for the requested cash dispense transaction. The system uses the phone number to send the generated security code to the mobile phone. The cash dispense transaction is allowed to proceed only if the system receives machine user input of the sent security code within a predetermined amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Willis Miller, Matthew R. Zaugg, James Block, H. Thomas Graef, Natarajan Ramachandran, Jeffery M. Enright, Mark A. Douglass, Dale H. Blackson
  • Patent number: 7946477
    Abstract: An automated banking machine can receive user card data from a cell phone. The phone stores the card data of several selectable cards, including electronic account number data. The machine generates and displays a random number correlated with a time period. A machine user manually inputs the displayed random number into their phone. The phone's banking software application encrypts the selected card's data along with the inputted random number data. The phone displays a bar code image containing the encrypted data. The machine includes a bar code reader which can read the displayed image. The machine causes the read data to be decrypted. The random number is used to verify the current transaction session. Thereafter, normal transaction flow can follow, including PIN input. The process replaces physical insertion of a card yet allows secure input of the card's data. Fraudulent activities requiring card insertion are also reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Natarajan Ramachandran, Mark A. Douglass
  • Patent number: 7946480
    Abstract: An automated banking machine operates to cause financial transfers responsive to data read from data bearing records. The machine includes a card reader that reads card data from a card of a machine user. The card data is linked in a data store to both a customer's financial account and a cell phone assigned to that customer. In response to the user's transaction request, contact data for the assigned cell phone is determined from the data store using the read card data. A transaction security code is then sent to that cell phone. The transaction is allowed to proceed only if the user inputs the sent security code to the machine within a predetermined amount of time. Transaction allowance may also be based on a real time determination that the assigned cell phone is physically located proximate the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems, division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Willis Miller, Matthew R. Zaugg, James Block, H. Thomas Graef, Natarajan Ramachandran, Jeffery M. Enright, Dale H. Blackson, Caren R. Blackson, legal representative, Mark A. Douglass
  • Publication number: 20100241564
    Abstract: A banking system operates to cause financial transfers responsive to card data read from data bearing records by a card reader. The system includes at least one automated banking machine comprising a cash dispenser. The system is operative during a cash dispense transaction request to receive through an automated banking machine, user input of data corresponding to a mobile phone number. The system is operative to generate a security code for the requested cash dispense transaction. The system uses the phone number to send the generated security code to the mobile phone. The cash dispense transaction is allowed to proceed only if the system receives machine user input of the sent security code within a predetermined amount of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Publication date: September 23, 2010
    Applicant: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Willis Miller, Matthew R. Zaugg, James Block, H. Thomas Graef, Natarajan Ramachandran, Jeffery M. Enright, Mark A. Douglass, Dale H. Blackson, Caren R. Balckson
  • Publication number: 20100059587
    Abstract: An automated banking machine operates to cause financial transfers responsive to data read from data bearing records. The machine includes a card reader that reads card data from a card of a machine user. The card data is linked in a data store to both a customer's financial account and a cell phone assigned to that customer. In response to the user's transaction request, contact data for the assigned cell phone is determined from the data store using the read card data. A transaction security code is then sent to that cell phone. The transaction is allowed to proceed only if the user inputs the sent security code to the machine within a predetermined amount of time. Transaction allowance may also be based on a real time determination that the assigned cell phone is physically located proximate the machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Publication date: March 11, 2010
    Applicant: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Willis Miller, Matthew R. Zaugg, James Block, H. Thomas Graef, Natarajan Ramachandran, Jeffery M. Enright, Dale H. Blackson, Mark A. Douglass, Caren R. Blackson
  • Patent number: 7584885
    Abstract: An ATM with a currency dispenser includes both a magnetic stripe card reader and an RFID tag reader. A user card includes both magnetic stripe data and RFID tag data. The ATM can read both the magnetic stripe data and the RFID tag data from the user card. The magnetic stripe data and the RFID tag data have a predetermined relationship. The ATM can use the RFID tag data in conjunction with the magnetic stripe data to verify the card user as an authorized card user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventor: Mark Douglass
  • Patent number: 7536531
    Abstract: Scaling address space utilization in a multi-threaded, multi-processor computer, including attaching to process memory of an exporting process a region of virtual memory specified in a cross-memory descriptor; requesting, by an importing thread of an importing process having process memory, a lightweight attachment of the region of virtual memory to the process memory of the importing process for exclusive use by the importing thread; and lightweight attaching, by an operating system to the process memory of the importing process, the region of virtual memory for exclusive use by the importing thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher F. McDonald, Bruce Mealey, Mark Douglass Rogers
  • Publication number: 20090057398
    Abstract: An automated banking machine operates using data read from user cards. The machine is operative to transfer funds in account. The machine includes a fascia adapted to be held by a lock adjacent an opening of a housing supported atop a chest. The fascia is in operatively supported connection with the housing and operatively supported by the housing through two horizontally-disposed members. The machine includes at least one serviceable component supported within the housing or by the fascia. The fascia is moved away from the housing while operatively supported by the housing through the two horizontally-disposed members and a servicer may stand between the two horizontally-disposed members while servicing at least one component of the machine. The housing may alternatively or additionally include a rear panel similarly mounted with two horizontally-disposed members for servicing of machine components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold Incorporated
    Inventors: Mark A. Douglass, Daniel Schoeffler, Dave Kraft, Richard C. Lute, JR.
  • Publication number: 20080289688
    Abstract: A photovoltaic apparatus includes a plurality of approximately spherical photoelectric conversion elements including a second semiconductor layer located outside a first semiconductor layer, for generating photoelectromotive force therebetween. The second semiconductor layer has an opening through which part of the first semiconductor layer is exposed. The apparatus also includes a support having first and second conductors and an insulator disposed between the conductors for electrically insulating the conductors from each other. The support has recesses adjacent to each other, the inside surfaces of which are constituted by the first conductor. The photoelectric conversion elements are disposed in respective recesses so that the elements are illuminated with light reflected by part of the first conductor that constitutes the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: November 27, 2008
    Applicant: SPHERAL SOLAR POWER, INC.
    Inventors: Milfred Dale Hammerbacher, Mark Douglass Matthews
  • Patent number: 7377424
    Abstract: An automated banking machine (10) is provided. The automated banking machine may include a fascia (50) in operative connection with a frame (110). The machine may include a plurality of hardware devices which are accessible through the fascia. The hardware devices may include a cash dispenser (24), receipt printer (20), and a card reader (22). The fascia may include replaceable bezels (550,552) with apertures therein for providing access to hardware devices. The bezels may be operative to float with respect to the fascia and hardware devices to automatically align hardware devices with the bezels. In addition the hardware devices may include movable portions which are operative to automatically align with the bezels. The bezels may include ramps, ribs, or other angled surfaces which guide the hardware devices into alignment with the openings in the bezels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems, division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Mark Douglass, Richard C. Lute, Daniel Schoeffler
  • Patent number: 7299336
    Abstract: Scaling address space utilization in a multi-threaded, multi-processor computer, including attaching to process memory of an exporting process a region of virtual memory specified in a cross-memory descriptor; requesting, by an importing thread of an importing process having process memory, a lightweight attachment of the region of virtual memory to the process memory of the importing process for exclusive use by the importing thread; and lightweight attaching, by an operating system to the process memory of the importing process, the region of virtual memory for exclusive use by the importing thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher F. McDonald, Bruce Mealey, Mark Douglass Rogers
  • Patent number: 7284692
    Abstract: An ATM with a currency dispenser includes a contactless card reader. The contactless card reader can read data from an RFID tag of a customer's ATM card. The contactless card reader, such as an RFID tag reader, can be located so as to provide additional space for another transaction component. The contactless card reader can also be used in conjunction with a magnetic stripe card reader. The ATM includes a housing for the RFID tag reader that is adapted to prevent interception of radio signals. The ATM is able to prevent dispensing of currency in situations where unauthorized detection of signals is sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: DieBold Self-Service Systems, division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventor: Mark Douglass
  • Patent number: 7270264
    Abstract: An automated banking machine (10) is provided. The automated banking machine may include a fascia (50) in operative connection with a frame (110). The machine may include a plurality of hardware devices which are accessible through the fascia. The hardware devices may include a cash dispenser (24), receipt printer (20), and a card reader (22). The fascia may include replaceable bezels (550,552) with apertures therein for providing access to hardware devices. The bezels may be operative to float with respect to the fascia and hardware devices to automatically align hardware devices with the bezels. In addition the hardware devices may include movable portions which are operative to automatically align with the bezels. The bezels may include ramps, ribs, or other angled surfaces which guide the hardware devices into alignment with the openings in the bezels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems, division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Mark Douglass, David Hollifield, Richard C. Lute, Theodore Bauer
  • Patent number: 7168613
    Abstract: An automated banking machine (10) is provided. The automated banking machine may include a fascia (50) in operative connection with a frame (110). The machine may include a plurality of hardware devices which are accessible through the fascia. The hardware devices may include a cash dispenser (24), receipt printer (20), and a card reader (22). The fascia may include replaceable bezels (550,552) with apertures therein for providing access to hardware devices. The bezels may be operative to float with respect to the fascia and hardware devices to automatically align hardware devices with the bezels. In addition the hardware devices may include movable portions which are operative to automatically align with the bezels. The bezels may include ramps, ribs, or other angled surfaces which guide the hardware devices into alignment with the openings in the bezels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems
    Inventors: Mark Douglass, James Booth, Pedro Tula
  • Publication number: 20060293504
    Abstract: Polymerization processes are described herein. The polymerization processes generally include introducing a catalyst system to a reaction zone, introducing an olefin monomer to the reaction zone, contacting the olefin monomer with the catalyst system to form a polyolefin and contacting the polyolefin with a quench agent, wherein the quench agent is at least partially soluble in the olefin monomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Publication date: December 28, 2006
    Applicant: Fina Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth Blackmon, Mark Douglass, Kevin McGovern, Mark Miller, Joseph Thorman
  • Patent number: 7152784
    Abstract: An automated banking machine (10) is provided. The automated banking machine may include a fascia (50) in operative connection with a frame (110). The machine may include a plurality of hardware devices which are accessible through the fascia. The hardware devices may include a cash dispenser (24), receipt printer (20), and a card reader (22). The fascia may include replaceable bezels (550,552) with apertures therein for providing access to hardware devices. The bezels may be operative to float with respect to the fascia and hardware devices to automatically align hardware devices with the bezels. In addition the hardware devices may include movable portions which are operative to automatically align with the bezels. The bezels may include ramps, ribs, or other angled surfaces which guide the hardware devices into alignment with the openings in the bezels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Mark Douglass, Roy Mleziva, Daniel Schoeffler, Dave Kraft, Richard C. Lute, Shawn Griggy, Pedro Tula, Zen Y. Wang
  • Patent number: 7103752
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for broadcasting information. A change in data used by a number of processors in the data processing system is identified. A message is sent to the number of processors in the data processing system in which the message is sent with a priority level equal to a set of routines that use the data in response to identifying the change. This message is responded to only when the recipient is at an interrupt priority less favored than the priority of the message. A flag is set for each of the number of processors to form a plurality of set flags for the message in which the plurality of set flags are located in memory locations used by the number of processors in which the plurality of set flags remains set until a response is made to the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ramanjaneya Sarma Burugula, Matthew David Fleming, Joefon Jann, Mark Douglass Rogers
  • Patent number: 7076632
    Abstract: A method, system, and program for fast paging of a large memory block are provided. A request to physically remove a memory block device from a data processing system is received. A logical volume within disk space is dynamically allocated for a contiguous paging space. Multiple logical pages for the memory block devices are translated into multiple physical addresses for the memory block device. A single input/output request is issued to page out data located at the multiple physical addresses to the contiguous paging space, such that after the single request is complete, the memory block device can be safely removed. Further, when a replacement memory block device is detected, a single input/output request is issued to page in data located within the contiguous paging space to the replacement memory block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gerald Francis McBrearty, Mark Douglass Rogers
  • Patent number: 7004385
    Abstract: An ATM with a currency dispenser includes a contactless card reader. The card reader can read data from an RFID tag of a customer's ATM card. An ATM RFID card reader can be located so as to provide additional space for another transaction component or can be used in conjunction with a magnetic stripe or other reader. Currency dispensing is enabled responsive to tag data. A housing is adapted to prevent interception of radio signals. The ATM is able to prevent dispensing of currency in situations where unauthorized detection of signals is sensed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventor: Mark Douglass
  • Patent number: D623375
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Mark A. Douglass, Richard C. Lute, Roy Mleziva, Donald S. Nelson, Jr., Paul D. Magee, David A. Barker