Patents Assigned to Diebold, Incorporated
  • Publication number: 20160240050
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, an automated banking machine that allows a customer to employ a mobile wireless device for performing banking transactions. The customer may request assistance from a teller or other bank personnel at a remote location. An audio, and optionally video, communication may be initiated between the remote location and the customer. The customer may use either the automated banking machine, mobile wireless device, or both for communicating with the remote location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: Diebold Self-Service Systems, division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: James BLOCK, H. Thomas Graef, Paul D. Magee, Donald S. Nelson, JR., James Meek, Daniel S. Mclntyre, Mark DePietro, Natarajan Ramachandran
  • Patent number: 9412114
    Abstract: An exemplary system includes an automated banking machine which is operable to conduct transactions including cash dispensing for users responsive to communication with a transaction host. The machine is also operative to provide output signals which drive external displays which are separate from the machine. The machine is operable to receive visual and audio content from one or more broadcast content sources and to store the content in the machine. The content is then output through the external displays. The machine is also operative to receive and store a plurality of advertising messages. The advertising messages are output in a targeted manner to users of the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: James Meek, Allan R. Bakerink, Bartholomew J. Frazzitta, Randolph C. Benore, Daniel S. McIntyre, Mark DePietro
  • Patent number: 9407882
    Abstract: An apparatus allows entry of an individual into an area. An access structure (14) controls entry to and exit from a facility. The condition of at least one lock (26, 30, 48, 52) associated with the structure is changed responsive to correspondence of user data and stored data. An operator terminal (12) provides through a display (72), visible outputs associated with the structure. The operator terminal is usable to control functional aspects of the structure. The operator terminal is also usable to receive indications of conditions associated with components that control entry to and exit from the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert V. Artino, Roy Hathaway, Edward J. Ujhazy, Dustin Cairns
  • Patent number: 9396463
    Abstract: An automated banking machine operates responsive to data read from data bearing records corresponding to authorized user or financial account data. The automated banking machine includes a card reader for reading data from user cards. The automated banking machine causes financial transfers related to financial accounts that correspond to data read from user cards. The automated banking machine also includes devices that control the supply of power to transaction function devices such as the card reader to avoid exceeding power supply capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems, division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Songtao Ma, Eric Toepke, Mike P. Ryan, Tim Crews, Willis Miller, Nick Billett, Steven Shepley, Dave Krzic, Victor Cogan, Randall W. Jenkins, Thomas D. Ertle, Natarajan Ramachandran
  • Patent number: 9390623
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a Vehicle sensor senses the arrival and departure of vehicles in a drive-through lane. In particular embodiments, the system can calculate and store time data corresponding to each vehicle. Time data can be processed to determine the duration of transaction activity in the drive-through lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Neil Gromley, Dustin Cairns, Mike Lawver, Rodney J. Reese, B. Scott Harroff
  • Patent number: 9384637
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, there is disclosed herein a picker that is operable to separate an individual sheet from a stack of sheets. The picker has a first rotatable picker member that includes a first high friction peripheral arcuate segment, where the first picker member is rotatable about an axis, a second rotatable member that includes a second high friction peripheral arcuate segment, wherein the second picker member is rotatable about the axis, and a drive in operative connection with the first and second rotatable picker members. The stack includes a bounding sheet having a sheet face bounding a side of the stack. The first and second arcuate segments are operable to concurrently engage the sheet face. The first and second picker members are operable to be separately rotationally movable about the axis responsive to operation of the drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems, Division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: H. Thomas Graef, Michael Harty, William Beskitt, Sean Haney, Robert W Barnett, Bryan Simmons
  • Patent number: 9378629
    Abstract: A banking system operates responsive to data read from data bearing records. The system includes an automated banking machine comprising a card reader. The card reader includes a movable read head that can read card data along a magnetic stripe of a card that was inserted long-edge first. The card reader includes a card entry gate. The gate is opened for a card that is determined to be properly oriented for data reading. The card reader can encrypt card data, including account data. The card data is usable by the machine to authorize a user to carry out a financial transfer involving the account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: David N. Lewis, Jeffery M. Enright, Natarajan Ramachandran, Mark A. Douglass, Tim Crews, Songtao Ma, Randall W. Jenkins, H. Thomas Graef, Sathish M. Irudayam, Klaus Steinbach
  • Patent number: 9373229
    Abstract: An automated banking machine operative to cause financial transfers responsive to data read from data bearing records. The automated banking machine includes a card reader that is operative to read card data from user cards corresponding to financial accounts. The automated banking machine is operative responsive to the card data to carry out transactions that transfer and/or allocate funds between accounts. The automated banking machine is further operative to provide users with a receipt for transactions conducted. The automated banking machine includes a cash dispenser operative to dispense cash to machine users and to cause the value of cash to be assessed to financial accounts corresponding to card data. The automated banking machine is further operative to receive currency bills or other sheets from a user and to process and store such sheets through operation of a currency accepting device. The account corresponding to card data may be credited for the value of bills or other sheets received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems, Division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Eastman, Brian Jones, Michael S. Johnson, Shawn Griggy, Jeff A. Brannan, Michael J. Harty, Robert W. Barnett, Eric S. Vankeulen, Mike P. Ryan, William D. Beskitt, Kenneth Turocy
  • Patent number: 9373114
    Abstract: A banking system operates responsive to data read from data bearing records. The system includes an automated banking machine comprising a card reader. The card reader includes a movable read head that can read card data along a magnetic stripe of a card that was inserted long-edge first. The card reader includes a card entry gate. The gate is opened for a card that is determined to be properly oriented for data reading. The card reader can encrypt card data, including account data. The machine also includes a PIN keypad. The card reader can send encrypted card data to the keypad. The keypad can decipher the encrypted card data. The keypad can encrypt both deciphered card data and a received user PIN. The card data and the PIN are usable by the machine to authorize a user to carry out a financial transfer involving the account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems Division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: David N. Lewis, Jeffery M. Enright, Natarajan Ramachandran, Mark A. Douglass, Timothy Crews, Songtao Ma, Randall W. Jenkins, H. Thomas Graef, Sathish M. Irudayam, Klaus Steinbach
  • Patent number: 9368000
    Abstract: An automated banking machine is part of a banking system that can operate to cause financial transfers responsive to data read from data bearing records. The machine can also receive user card data from a cell phone, including an electronic account number. The phone's banking application encrypts the account number along with an inputted random number which was generated by the machine. The phone then displays a bar code image containing the encrypted data. The machine includes a bar code reader. The random number is used to verify the current transaction session. Thereafter, normal transaction flow can follow, including PIN input. The process allows for secure input of card data without physical insertion of a card. Thus, fraudulent activities based on card insertion can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems Division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Natarajan Ramachandran, Mark A. Douglass
  • Patent number: 9367980
    Abstract: A deposit management system is operable responsive to data read from data bearing records. The system is associated with financial funds depositories. Each depository can accept items, such as deposit bags. Each depository includes a bar code reader that can read data from a bar code label that is located on a deposit bag. The system allows merchants to preregister a deposit before performing the deposit. A preregistered deposit is linked with a deposit identifier in a data store. The deposit identifier can be represented in a bar code. If the system determines that a depository read a bar code having a deposit identifier that corresponds in the data store to a preregistered deposit, then that depository is operated to automatically unlock its deposit entry door to permit the deposit. The system also allows merchants to review their deposit history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems, Division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: H. Thomas Graef, J. Richard Hanna, Randall W. Jenkins, Robert V. Artino, Rodney Reese, Mark A. DePietro, Steven R. Davis, Michael Meffie
  • Patent number: 9368003
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, an automated banking machine that operates responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records. The automated banking machine including a transaction function device, a slot associated with the transaction function device, an indicator adjacent to the slot, the indicator includes at least three different color light emitting diodes (LEDs), and an indicator processor in operative connection with the indicator. The indicator processor is operable to cause the LEDs of the indicator to intermittently illuminate to produce a plurality of blended colors that correspond to a functional status of the transaction function device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems Division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy Crews, Grant Thornberry, Songtao Ma, Darla Rowland
  • Patent number: 9366377
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a mounting structure for mounting a display monitor to a panel. The mounting allows the display monitor to be rotated so that it can be seen from either side of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Tirak, Pedro Tula, Nathaniel Oberly
  • Patent number: 9361767
    Abstract: A banking system is controlled responsive to data read from data bearing records. The banking system includes an automated banking machine. The machine is operable to carry out a financial transaction for a person responsive to a determination that the person is an authorized user of the machine based on correspondence between identifying data read by a reader of the machine and data store information. The machine includes a check acceptor that is operative to receive checks from authorized machine users. The check acceptor is operable to continuously move a received check along its transport path while simultaneously rotationally orienting the check into alignment with the transport path. A check determined not to have at least one property of an acceptable check is returned to the machine user. Acceptable checks are processed and stored in the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems, Division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: H. Thomas Graef, William Beskitt
  • Patent number: 9355531
    Abstract: A deposit management system is operable responsive to data included on data bearing records. The system is associated with a plurality of financial funds depositories. Each depository can accept deposit items, such as deposit bags. Each depository includes a bar code reader that can read data from a bar code label that is located on a deposit bag. The system allows merchants to preregister a deposit before performing the deposit. A preregistered deposit is linked with a deposit identifier in a data store. The deposit identifier can be represented in a bar code. If the system determines that a bar code reader of a respective depository read a deposit identifier which corresponds in the data store to a preregistered deposit, then the respective depository is operated to automatically unlock its deposit entry door. The system also allows merchants to review their deposit history.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems, Division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: H. Thomas Graef, J. Richard Hanna, Randall W. Jenkins, Robert V. Artino, Rodney J. Reese, Mark A. Depietro, Steven R. Davis, Michael A. Meffie
  • Patent number: 9355532
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, an automated banking machine that is operable to detect signals corresponding to a plurality of service activities carried out on a transaction function device. Data representative of the plurality of service activities is stored in the transaction function device's data store.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems Division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy Crews, Grant Thornberry, Songtao Ma, Darla Rowland
  • Patent number: 9355530
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, an automated banking machine operable to perform cash withdrawals. If a withdrawal is below a threshold, authorization is obtained from a first transaction authorization computer. If a withdrawal is greater than or equal to the threshold, a first portion of the cash is dispensed responsive to authorization from a first transaction authorization computer and a second portion of the cash amount is dispensed responsive to authorization from a second transaction authorization computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems Division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: James Block, H Thomas Graef, Paul D Magee, Donald S Nelson, Jr., James Meek, Daniel S McIntyre, Mark DePietro, Natarajan Ramachandran
  • Publication number: 20160110967
    Abstract: An Automated Transaction Machine (ATM) includes a housing with a lower unit and an upper unit including a main portion having a top panel and a display housing extending above the top panel. A display is disposed within the display housing. A control electronics package is disposed in the display housing and including a processor and a plurality of input/output ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: Diebold Self-Service Systems, Division of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Randall Jenkins, Songtao Ma, Rani Solic, Joseph Hartman, Dave Kraft, Robert Cole, Michael Tirak
  • Patent number: 9311635
    Abstract: A system operates to carry out financial transfers in response to data read from data bearing records. A cell phone having a camera stores in memory indicia corresponding to account data from a plurality of magnetic stripe cards. A user can operate the phone to select one of the accounts stored in the memory. The memory further includes a scanned user-identifying written signature. The user can use the phone during an item purchase to wirelessly transmit each of an item's identifier captured by the camera, selected account data, and the user signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems, divison of Diebold, Incorporated
    Inventors: Natarajan Ramachandran, Ashok Modi, Jeff Hill, Ray Motz, Klaus A. Steinbach
  • Patent number: 9299227
    Abstract: Automated banking machines operate to cause financial transfers responsive to data read from data bearing records. Each of the automated banking machines includes a card reader that is operative to read data from user cards corresponding to financial accounts. Transactions are authorized responsive at least in part to correspondence between card data and stored data corresponding to authorized users. Entities responsible for operating the automated banking machines receive messages that include information or update code items for software or firmware usable in the banking machines for which they have operational responsibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: DIEBOLD SELF-SERVICE SYSTEMS DIVISION OF DIEBOLD, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Nicholas Billett, Steven Shepley, William R. Aitken, Glenda Griswold, Joseph McGinley