MEDIA REPLENISHMENT MANAGEMENT

• US 20170039819A1
• Filed: 10/20/2016
• Published: 02/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NCR Corporation
• Original Assignee: NCR Corporation
• Inventors: Brown, Timothy, Angus, Robin, Neilan, Michael James, Rojas, Edgar
• Granted Patent: US 10,540,858 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06316 Sequencing of tasks or work
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/1085 involving automatic teller machines [ATMs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/18 involving self-service terminals [SST], vending machines, kiosks or multimedia terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/204 Loading of a stored value token using an ATM
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/209 Monitoring, auditing or diagnose of functioning of ATMs

Abstract

A method of method of managing media replenishment at a media terminal, the method comprising: receiving a media event from a media terminal; retrieving a next scheduled media replenishment event for that media terminal; evaluating if the next scheduled media replenishment event is scheduled to occur within an acceptable delay period; and initiating an unscheduled replenishment event only if the next scheduled media replenishment event is scheduled to occur after the acceptable delay period.

Claims

1-16. -16. (canceled)

17. A media terminal manager comprising:

(i) an event manager operable to receive events from media terminals being managed by the media terminal manager;

(ii) a replenishment manager operable to provide a user of the media terminal manager with information about scheduled media replenishment operations for the media terminals being managed by the media terminal manager; and

(iii) a replenishment dispatcher operable to issue media replenishment requests to a media replenishment center to implement (a) the scheduled media replenishment operations, and (b) qualified unscheduled media replenishment operations.

18. A media terminal manager according to claim 17, wherein the replenishment manager implements a cash optimization algorithm to create replenishment schedules for each media terminal.