Patents Assigned to NCR
  • Patent number: 7461773
    Abstract: A method is provided of operating an image-based check depositing terminal in response to a fault condition. The method comprises the steps of receiving a non-customer identification card from an individual who is other than a customer conducting a check deposit transaction at the check depositing terminal, reading from the card data which is associated with a financial institution, receiving from the individual a check which has been recovered from the terminal by the individual while clearing the fault condition, capturing an image of the check received from the individual, transporting the check to a check storage bin after the image of the check has been captured, and transmitting to the financial institution the captured image of the check together with the data which is associated with the financial institution. The method may further comprise the step of returning the non-customer identification card to the individual after the check has been transported to the check storage bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: NCR
    Inventors: Malon S. Updike, Bradley L. Lozier, John D. Morgan
  • Patent number: 7462840
    Abstract: A reader for a secure tag. The reader comprises a first excitation source (such as one or more LEDs) that stimulates at least one transition in the secure tag. The reader also comprises a second excitation source that stimulates more transitions than were stimulated by the first excitation source. The reader has a detector for detecting luminescence from the secure tag in response to excitation from the first excitation source and in response to excitation from the second excitation source to ensure that luminescence is detected at a pre-determined wavelength in response to the second excitation source but not the first excitation source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Gary A. Ross
  • Patent number: 7461009
    Abstract: An electronic shelf label system which sends messages to electronic shelf labels based upon priority. The system includes an electronic shelf label, and a computer for assigning a priority to an unsent message to the electronic shelf label, for comparing the priority to other priorities of other messages which are unsent, and for sending the message if the priority is higher than the other priorities. The computer may also determine message priorities of types of messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin W. Haulk, Cheryl K. Harkins
  • Patent number: 7458516
    Abstract: A card reader comprises an entry slot to allow access for a card into the interior of the card reader along a predetermined passage. The card reader further comprises a controller and an image capture device arranged so as to monitor the interior of the card reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Stuart Masterton, Barrie Clark
  • Patent number: 7457440
    Abstract: A method of processing a document comprises the steps of (a) scanning a document to capture image data associated with the document, (b) processing at least a portion of the captured image data to calculate a first count of pixels associated with a corner of the document, (c) processing at least a portion of the captured image data to calculate a second count of pixels associated with the corner of the document, and (d) determining if the corner of the document is missing or has a fold based upon the first count of pixels associated with the corner of the document and the second count of pixels associated with the corner of the document. The usability of the captured image data associated with the document is determined based upon the amount of information found missing from the image of the document due to, for examples, a torn or folded corner. If the torn or folded corner is determined to be large enough, then the corresponding image of the document is determined to be unusable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Dennis Scott, Nancy B. M. Stefanuk, Slawomir B. Wesolkowski
  • Patent number: 7451977
    Abstract: A plunger moves from a retracted position to an extended position to engage a document which is on a receiving platform to push the document through an opening in the receiving platform and towards a stacking platform to stack the document on the stacking platform. The plunger moves from the extended position back to the retracted position to allow a biasing force which is acting on the stacking platform to press the document which has just been stacked on the stacking platform against the receiving platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Tammer A. Gabel, Fredrik L. N. Kallin, Frank B. Dunn, David W. Norris, Anthony R. Dunn, William J. Cramer, Steven A. Hunt, Gary S. Howard
  • Patent number: 7451920
    Abstract: A portable credit card reader. A portable terminal reads a credit card, and accepts a keyed-in monetary amount. The terminal communicates with a credit card verification service, which accepts or rejects the monetary amount. The communication is done in a wireless manner. The terminal is self-teaching, allowing persons unfamiliar with its operation to successfully execute a credit card transaction without previous training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Manning I. Rose
  • Patent number: 7453442
    Abstract: User interface systems comprising a touch screen actuator and a tactile key, in which the tactile key is placed adjacent to the touch screen actuator so that manipulation of the tactile key can be detected by the touch screen actuator. Tactile key modules that can be so placed adjacent to a touch screen actuator, and methods of producing such user interface systems, as well as, repositioning such tactile key modules, are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: William Douglas Poynter
  • Patent number: 7451919
    Abstract: A self-service terminal (10) comprising a plurality of components associated with a valuable media, such as a card reader (28) or cash dispenser (30). Each component includes or is associated with one or more sensors for detecting potentially fraudulent activity and a component agent (34) for generating a warning signal in the event that such activity is detected. Also provided is a higher level agent (38) that is operable to receive warning signals from the component agents (34), and use the received signals to identify potentially fraudulent activity. By providing a hierarchy of fraud detection agents (34,38), the likelihood of a fraud being successfully detected is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: John G. Savage
  • Patent number: 7453347
    Abstract: A system for displaying an information package which achieves improved accuracy in the delivery of an advertising campaign. The system includes a remotely readable identification tag for holding an identifier, an interrogator for selectively remotely interrogating the tag to read the identifier, a processor responsive to the identifier read from the tag for obtaining, from a database, segment information that is associated with the identifier, and also responsive to the obtained segment information for designating the information package, and an information display unit for displaying the information package is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Antonio R. J. Bogat
  • Patent number: 7441704
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for identifying a one- or multi-dimensional spatial code comprising a plurality of security tags with one or more characteristic emission profiles. The spatial codes are identified on the basis of the combined spatial and spectral information. The system for identifying such spatial codes is comprised of a beam source, a detector, and a processor. The method includes illuminating the code, recording the light emission at a plurality of wavelengths, decoding the spatial information, resolving the spectral profiles, and identifying the code based on the spatial and spectral information. The system and method are applicable to validating a spatial code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Gary A. Ross
  • Patent number: 7436285
    Abstract: A dual-communication electronic shelf label system and method which increase communication bandwidth and minimize competition with other RF systems in a store for bandwidth. The system includes a base station including first wireless downlink communication circuitry and first wireless uplink communication circuitry operating in a different mode than the first wireless downlink communication circuitry, and an electronic shelf label including second wireless downlink communication circuitry for receiving messages from first wireless downlink communication of the base station, and second wireless uplink communication circuitry for sending messages to first wireless uplink communication of the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: John Peter Roquemore, III
  • Patent number: 7437324
    Abstract: A system and method of tracking bill payment methods which stores details about payment to develop promotions. The system includes a touch screen, keyboard, or other device for recording customer identification information. A display displays payment method options based upon the customer identification information. A touch screen or keyboard for records bill payer selection of one of the payment options. A cash acceptor, check reader, or card reader receives payment in accordance with the one payment option. Finally, a processor determines predetermined details about the payment and stores the details.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: John C. Goodwin, III, Robert Randall Schlieker
  • Patent number: 7436313
    Abstract: A penetration screen is disclosed which comprises a substantially planar substrate with, at least, one electrical circuit disposed thereon. The electrical circuit is configured such that, at least, one section of the circuit is electrically isolatable from the remainder of the circuit without causing a fault condition in said remainder of the circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Nyle Bassilious, Gary A. Ross, Barrie Clark
  • Patent number: 7427933
    Abstract: A self-service terminal alphanumeric data entry device comprises a multi-button input device and processing circuitry comprising a letter selector. At least one of the buttons is associated with a number and with at least two alphabetic letters. The input device is arranged to operate in a number entry mode wherein actuation of a button inputs the number associated therewith and a text entry mode. In the text entry mode, actuation of a button causes the letter selector to chose, from the letters associated with that button, the letter which has the highest probability of forming a word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Scott H. Deas
  • Patent number: 7427054
    Abstract: A plinth is disclosed for the support of an attached object. The plinth has a fixing portion for embedding into a secure foundation. The plinth also has a base plate for support of the object, through support means, which are arranged to crumple under an impact, without the object becoming detached from the plinth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: David Sommerville, David W. Wallace, Paul Theasby
  • Patent number: 7426479
    Abstract: A customer activity data system and method which generate reports for manufacturers, sellers, and other suppliers. The system includes a computer for analyzing transaction data obtained from a transaction terminal and information characterizing customer activity at an information terminal specific to an item bearing a radio frequency identification (RFID) label, and for generating a report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Jerome A. Otto
  • Patent number: 7424852
    Abstract: A slitting machine includes a stand for supporting a web which is slit into multiple ribbons by a plurality of blades, with the ribbons being wound on corresponding cores supported on an arbor. A common ink roller is mounted across the feedpath of the web and has a printing surface configured to print an end-of-roll warning stripe in a universal pattern bridging adjacent ribbons irrespective of individual width thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: John Dempster, Blair Boudreau, Dianne Bateman
  • Patent number: 7424969
    Abstract: A system and method for depositing a cheque at a self-service terminal such as an automated teller machine. The method comprises the steps of: transporting the cheque from an entrance slot to a process zone; determining whether to accept or reject the document; and electronically acquiring an image of the document. Thereupon the system identifies an electronic or telecommunications address of a device associated with the user; and in the event of accepting the document, transmits the acquired image of the cheque to the device address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: Norman G. Taylor
  • Patent number: RE40576
    Abstract: A system and method of transferring information between a first software application and a second software application which employ an isolation layer. The system includes a client computer system provided by a first seller of computer systems, including a client software application, and a server computer system provided by a second seller of computer systems different from the first seller of computer systems, including a server software application which provides information from the server computer system to the client computer system. The system additionally includes isolation layer software, either at the client computer system or at the server computer system, which facilitates communication between the client software application and the server software application to transfer the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventor: John C. Goodwin, III