Patents by Inventor Christopher James Dunlop

Christopher James Dunlop 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).

  • Aggregated session management for terminal devices
    Patent number: 12243036
    Abstract: A media terminal includes two integrated currency devices, each device providing at least one feature/operation that is similar to or is the same as the other device. Two independent sessions to each device are made and presented to a transaction application of the terminal as a single aggregated session. When the transaction application issues a command through the single aggregated session, a decision is made that is transparent to the application as to which device should process the command on behalf of the application and the command is issued to the selected device over the corresponding independent session. Results or notifications provided by the selected device are aggregated and provided to the application over the single aggregated session. In an embodiment, the two integrated currency devices are different types of devices from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: NCR Atleos Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Pearson Miller, Andrew Davis, Christopher James Dunlop, Kevin MacDonald McKenzie
  • Aggregated Session Management for Terminal Devices
    Publication number: 20250037099
    Abstract: A media terminal includes two integrated currency devices, each device providing at least one feature/operation that is similar to or is the same as the other device. Two independent sessions to each device are made and presented to a transaction application of the terminal as a single aggregated session. When the transaction application issues a command through the single aggregated session, a decision is made that is transparent to the application as to which device should process the command on behalf of the application and the command is issued to the selected device over the corresponding independent session. Results or notifications provided by the selected device are aggregated and provided to the application over the single aggregated session. In an embodiment, the two integrated currency devices are different types of devices from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Alexander Pearson Miller, Andrew Davis, Christopher James Dunlop, Kevin MacDonald McKenzie
  • Aggregated Session Management for Terminal Devices
    Publication number: 20220198424
    Abstract: A media terminal includes two integrated currency devices, each device providing at least one feature/operation that is similar to or is the same as the other device. Two independent sessions to each device are made and presented to a transaction application of the terminal as a single aggregated session. When the transaction application issues a command through the single aggregated session, a decision is made that is transparent to the application as to which device should process the command on behalf of the application and the command is issued to the selected device over the corresponding independent session. Results or notifications provided by the selected device are aggregated and provided to the application over the single aggregated session. In an embodiment, the two integrated currency devices are different types of devices from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Alexander Pearson Miller, Andrew Davis, Christopher James Dunlop, Kevin MacDonald McKenzie
  • Aggregated session management for terminal devices
    Patent number: 11308471
    Abstract: A media terminal includes two integrated currency devices, each device providing at least one feature/operation that is similar to or is the same as the other device. Two independent sessions to each device are made and presented to a transaction application of the terminal as a single aggregated session. When the transaction application issues a command through the single aggregated session, a decision is made that is transparent to the application as to which device should process the command on behalf of the application and the command is issued to the selected device over the corresponding independent session. Results or notifications provided by the selected device are aggregated and provided to the application over the single aggregated session. In an embodiment, the two integrated currency devices are different types of devices from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander (Sandy) Pearson Miller, Andrew Davis, Christopher James Dunlop, Kevin MacDonald McKenzie
  • Aggregated Session Management for Terminal Devices
    Publication number: 20210319422
    Abstract: A media terminal includes two integrated currency devices, each device providing at least one feature/operation that is similar to or is the same as the other device. Two independent sessions to each device are made and presented to a transaction application of the terminal as a single aggregated session. When the transaction application issues a command through the single aggregated session, a decision is made that is transparent to the application as to which device should process the command on behalf of the application and the command is issued to the selected device over the corresponding independent session. Results or notifications provided by the selected device are aggregated and provided to the application over the single aggregated session. In an embodiment, the two integrated currency devices are different types of devices from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Alexander (Sandy) Pearson Miller, Andrew Davis, Christopher James Dunlop, Kevin MacDonald McKenzie