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Emergency communication system for automatic teller machines

  • US 6,055,438 A
  • Filed: 07/24/1997
  • Issued: 04/25/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/24/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An emergency communication system for use with an automatic teller machine and by an authorized user operating the machine for performing banking transactions, said system having unarmed, armed and activated conditions and including means for establishing communication between the user and a dispatcher at an emergency station having a 911 telephone number when said system is in the activated condition, said machine having operable and inoperable conditions for performing banking transactions, means including user portable activating means for sequentially shifting said system and said machine from a first to a second and then to a third operating mode, said system being unarmed and said machine being inoperable in said first mode, said system being armed and said machine being operable in said second mode, said system being armed and said machine being inoperable in said third mode, user operable activating means on said machine for shifting said system from said armed to said activated condition when said system and said machine are in said second and third operating modes, and means for shifting said system and said machine from said third mode to said first mode a predetermined period of time following shifting thereof from said second mode to said third mode.

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