Remote Safe Locking and Control

• US 20140067668A1
• Filed: 08/29/2012
• Published: 03/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Original Assignee: Bank of America Corp.
• Inventors: Bellamy, Dion L.
• Application Number:
  US13/597,779
• Publication Number:
  US 20140067668A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/43
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/207 Surveillance aspects at ATMs
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/209 Monitoring, auditing or diagnose of functioning of ATMs
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/211 Software architecture within ATMs or in relation to the ATM network

Abstract

A system, method, and/or software for receiving by at least one computing device, over a network, an indication of an event at a first monetary deposit device; and determining by the at least one computing device, responsive to the event, whether to send a locking state command to a second monetary deposit device, and if so, sending the locking state command over the network to the second monetary deposit device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving by at least one computing device, over a network, an indication of an event at a first monetary deposit device; and

determining by the at least one computing device, responsive to the event, whether to send a locking state command to a second monetary deposit device, and if so, sending the locking state command over the network to the second monetary deposit device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said determining comprises determining the second monetary deposit device from a plurality of monetary deposit devices based at least in part on a predetermined set of groupings of the monetary deposit devices.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said indication of the event comprises an indication of an attempted unlocking of the first monetary deposit device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second monetary deposit devices are each an automated teller machine (ATM).

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said determining comprises the at least one computing device determining whether to send the locking state command based on stored data representing a history of events at one or more monetary deposit devices.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the locking state command comprises a lock command.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a subset of a plurality of monetary deposit devices, the subset being determined based on the first monetary deposit device, and the subset including the second monetary deposit device.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a subset of a plurality of monetary deposit devices that are located within a certain distance of the first monetary deposit device, the subset including the second monetary deposit device

9. At least one computer-readable information storage device storing computer-executable instructions for performing a method by one or more computing devices, the method comprising:

receiving by at least one computing device, over a network, an indication of an event at a first monetary deposit device;

determining by the at least one computing device, responsive to the event, whether to send a locking state command to a second monetary deposit device, and if so, sending the locking state command over the network to the second monetary deposit device.

10. The at least one computer-readable information storage device of claim 9, wherein said determining comprises determining the second monetary deposit device from a plurality of monetary deposit devices based at least in part on a predetermined set of groupings of the monetary deposit devices.

11. The at least one computer-readable information storage device of claim 9, wherein said indication of the event comprises an indication of an attempted unlocking of the first monetary deposit device.

12. The at least one computer-readable information storage device of claim 9, wherein the first and second monetary deposit devices are each an automated teller machine (ATM).

13. The at least one computer-readable information storage device of claim 9, wherein said determining comprises the at least one computing device determining whether to send the locking state command based on stored data representing a history of events at one or more monetary deposit devices.

14. The at least one computer-readable information storage device of claim 9, wherein the locking state command comprises a lock command.

15. The at least one computer-readable information storage device of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises determining a subset of a plurality of monetary deposit devices, the subset being determined based on the first monetary deposit device, and the subset including the second monetary deposit device.

16. A system, comprising:

a plurality of monetary deposit devices;

at least one computer-readable information storage device storing information identifying a plurality of groups of the monetary deposit devices;

at least one computing device configured to;

receive an indication of an event occurring at a first one of the monetary deposit devices;

determine which of the groups includes the first one of the monetary deposit devices; and

send a locking state command to at least some of the monetary deposit devices included in the determined group.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein said indication of the event comprises an indication of an attempted unlocking of the first one of the monetary deposit device.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the first one of the monetary deposit devices is an automated teller machine (ATM).

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the at least one computer-readable information storage device further stores information representing a history of events that occurred at one or more of the monetary deposit devices, and wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to determine whether to send the locking state command based on the history of events.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the locking state command comprises a lock command.