Cash dispensing automated banking machine user interface system and method

• US 7,175,076 B1
• Filed: 07/06/2005
• Issued: 02/13/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems (Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems (Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated)
• Inventors: Block, James, Graef, H. Thomas, Magee, Paul D., Putman, Harold V.
• Primary Examiner(s): LEE, SEUNG H
• Application Number:
  US11/175,890
• Time in Patent Office: 587 Days
• Field of Search: 235/379, 902 8- 10, 902/30, 902/14, 705/43
• US Class Current: 235/379
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/20 Automatic teller machines [ATMs]
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/206 Software aspects at ATMs

Abstract

An automated banking machine is operative to enable users to operate the machine to carry out transactions such as the dispensing of cash. The exemplary machine provides audible instructions which are output through external loudspeakers, a headphone, or a handset. Rotation of a rotatable knob (372, 382) or other movable item causes the output of user selectable characters, transaction types and/or amounts corresponding to each respective position. The user selects the audible output produced in the current position of the knob for receipt by the machine as a transaction input by pressing on the knob. Characters and other selectable inputs corresponding to knob positions can be varied by the computer in the machine to reduce the risk of a criminal intercepting the user'"'"'s inputs to the machine.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

a) reading indicia from a card input by a user to an automated banking machine including a cash dispenser;

b) receiving a multicharacter code from the user through operation of the machine in a first mode, including the user moving a rotatable member in supporting connection with the machine to each of a plurality of different positions, and the machine providing to the user through the rotatable member outputs manually perceivable by the user indicating a plurality of characters, each character corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of positions of the rotatable member, wherein the output indicating at least one character is perceptively different from the outputs indicating the other characters; and

c) dispensing cash from the machine to the user responsive to the code input in (b) corresponding to the indicia read from the card in (a).

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein (b) includes the machine providing to the user outputs that include a perceptible vibratory output indicating a position corresponding to a “

5.”

3. The method according to claim 2 wherein (b) includes providing an output through the rotatable member indicating a “

9”

responsive to rotation of the rotatable member in a first angular direction, and providing an output indicating a “

0”

responsive to rotation of the rotatable member in a second angular direction opposed of the first angular direction.

4. The method according to claim 3 wherein in (b) providing to the user the output indicating the “

9”

includes providing an increased resistance to further rotation of the rotatable member in the first angular direction.

5. The method according to claim 4 wherein in (b) providing to the user the output indicating the “

0”

includes providing a perceptible tactile sensation imitating a physical stop.

6. The method according to claim 5 further comprising;

d) receiving at least one command from the user through operation of the machine in a second mode, including the user moving the rotatable member to each of a plurality of different positions, and the machine providing to the user outputs perceivable by the user indicating a plurality of transaction options, each option corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of positions of the rotatable member.

7. The method according to claim 6 further comprising:

e) selectively changing between the first mode and the second mode of the machine responsive to rotation of the rotatable member.

8. The method according to claim 7 wherein in (e) selectively changing from the first mode to the second mode is accompanied by an increase in resistance to further rotation of the rotatable member in the first angular direction followed by a decline in resistance to further rotation of the rotatable member in the first angular direction.

9. The method according to claim 8 wherein the outputs indicating the positions corresponding to options in (d) are perceptibly different than the outputs indicating positions corresponding to characters in (b).

10. The method according to claim 9 wherein the outputs indicating the options in (d) include audible outputs and the outputs indicating the characters in (b) include tactile outputs.

11. The method according to claim 1 wherein (b) includes providing outputs to the user includes providing an output through the rotatable member indicating a “

9”

responsive to rotation of the rotatable member in a first angular direction, and providing an output indicating a “

0”

responsive to rotation of the rotatable member in a second angular direction opposed of the first direction.

12. The method according to claim 11 wherein in (b) providing to the user the output indicating the “

9”

includes providing increased resistance to further rotation of the rotatable member in the first angular direction.

13. The method according to claim 12 wherein in (b) providing to the user the output indicating the “

0”

includes providing increased resistance to further rotation of the rotatable member in the second angular direction.

14. The method according to claim 13 wherein the rotatable member is axially movable and wherein in (b) receiving a multicharacter code from the user further includes the user moving the rotatable member axially to select a character to be included in the code.

15. The method according to claim 1 further comprising:

d) receiving at least one command from the user through operation of the machine, including the user moving the rotatable member to each of a plurality of different positions, and the machine providing to the user outputs perceivable by the user indicating a plurality of transaction options, each option corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of positions of the rotatable member.

16. The method according to claim 15 further comprising:

e) selectively changing between the first mode in which characters are received from a user and a second mode of the machine in which selected transaction options are received from a user responsive to rotation of the rotatable member.

17. The method according to claim 16 wherein the outputs indicating rotational positions corresponding to the options in (d) are manually perceptibly different than the outputs indicating the rotational positions corresponding to the characters in (b).

20. Computer readable media bearing instructions which are operative to cause at least one computer in the automated banking machine to cause the automated banking machine to carry out the method steps recited in claim 1.

21. The computer readable media of claim 20 further including instructions which are operative to cause the at least one computer in the automated banking machine to cause the automated banking machine to further carry out the method steps recited in claim 6.

22. The computer readable media of claim 21 further including instruction which are operative to cause the at least one computer in the automated banking machine to cause the automated banking machine to further carry out the method steps recited in claim 7.

18. A method comprising:

a) reading indicia from a card input by a user to an automated banking machine including a cash dispenser;

b) receiving inputs from the user through operation of the machine, including the user manually rotating a rotatable member in supporting connection with the machine to each of a plurality of different positions, and the machine providing to the user through the rotatable member outputs manually perceivable by the user indicating a plurality of input options, each input option corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of rotational positions of the rotatable member, and wherein the machine is selectively operative in a first mode wherein the input options correspond to characters and a second mode wherein the input options correspond to transaction options;

c) dispensing cash from the machine to the user responsive to the user inputs in (b).

19. The method according to claim 18 wherein the rotatable member is axially movable and wherein in (b) receiving a multicharacter code from the user further includes moving the rotatable member axially to select a character to be included in the code.

23. Computer readable media bearing instructions which are operative to cause at least one computer in the automated banking machine to cause the automated banking machine to carry out the method steps recited in claim 18.