Transaction processing system

• US 4,375,032 A
• Filed: 02/05/1981
• Issued: 02/22/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Omron Tateisi Electronics Co. (Omron Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Omron Tateisi Electronics Co. (Omron Corporation)
• Inventors: Uchida, Yasuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitts, Harold I.
• Application Number:
  US06/231,845
• Time in Patent Office: 747 Days
• Field of Search: 235/379, 235/380, 235/381, 235/382, 340/825.33, 340/825.35, 340/286
• US Class Current: 235/380
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/20 Automatic teller machines [ATMs]
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/202 Depositing operations within ATMs depositing in general G07D11/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/207 Surveillance aspects at ATMs
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 3/00 Alarm indicators, e.g. bells

Abstract

There is provided a transaction processing system including a terminal machine for automatic cash transactions initiated with record media possessed by users, comprising means for reading data on record media inserted by users, means for detecting if the read data are related to certain data representing a theft or the like, and means for delaying transactions by a predetermined time period when the detecting means has detected that the read data are related to said certain data.

Claims

1. A transaction processing system including a terminal machine for automatic cash transactions initiated with record media inserted by user, comprising:

means for reading data on said record media inserted by users,

means for storing data representative of unvalid record media,

means for comparing said read data to said stored data,

means for delaying said transactions by a predetermined time period sufficient to provide notification of invalidity when said comparing means has detected that said read data is related to said stored data, and means for completing the cash transactions whether or not there is a delay.

2. A transaction processing system according to claim 1 wherein said transaction processing system consists of at least one terminal machine and a processing center, said processing center producing messages intended for said terminal machine, and including means for inserting delay instruction data commanding a delay of transaction in said message from said processing center to said terminal machine.

3. A transaction processing system according to claim 1 or 2 wherein said terminal machine is a cash withdrawal machine.