Patents by Inventor Wolf D. Rossman

Wolf D. Rossman 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).

  • Cash transaction verification and crediting apparatus
    Patent number: 7783570
    Abstract: To enable the payment of charges, for example those for mobile telephones, with cash there is provided an automated terminal for receiving payments including an input for currency notes, an acceptor for such currency notes and an input for information on an account for charges to which payment is required together with a control arrangement to record said account information and the value of acceptable currency notes fed in, to relate said information to said value as payment to said account and to hold said related information and value and acceptable currency notes available for retrieval. In this way a user need not have a bank account to make a payment to an account with a service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Nicoll, Mark M. Grossi, Grant C. Paton, Wolf D. Rossman, Alfred J. Hutcheon
  • Driving multiple display interfaces with a single operator application
    Publication number: 20080158150
    Abstract: A self-service terminal (SST) interacts with a human operator by accessing one or more documents that include: (1) text-based content formatted for display on a text-only display device, and (2) instructions for rendering the text-based content with graphical enhancements on multimedia display device. The SST uses the instructions in the one or more documents to render the text-based content with graphical enhancements on a multimedia display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Wolf D. Rossman, Andrew D. Monaghan
  • Cash transaction verification and crediting apparatus
    Patent number: 7206759
    Abstract: To enable the payment of charges, for example those for mobile telephones, with cash there is provided an automated terminal for receiving payments including an input for currency notes, an acceptor for such currency notes and an input for information on an account for charges to which payment is required together with a control arrangement to record said account information and the value of acceptable currency notes fed in, to relate said information to said value as payment to said account and to hold said related information and value and acceptable currency notes available for retrieval. In this way a user need not have a bank account to make a payment to an account with a service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Nicoll, Mark M. Grossi, Grant C. Paton, Wolf D. Rossman, Alfred J. Hutcheon