Correlation of resources

• US 9,135,020 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2011
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NCR Atleos Corp.
• Original Assignee: NCR Corporation (NCR Voyix Corporation)
• Inventors: Patton, Gordon, Fraser, Donald, Joy, Ian
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Tammy
• Application Number:
  US13/250,025
• Publication Number:
  US 20130086592A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,446 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4411 Configuring for operating with peripheral devices; Loading of device drivers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44521 Dynamic linking or loading; Link editing at or after load time, e.g. Java class loading
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3227 Configuring a gaming machine, e.g. downloading personal settings, selecting working parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/323 wherein the player is informed, e.g. advertisements, odds, instructions
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/206 Software aspects at ATMs
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/211 Software architecture within ATMs or in relation to the ATM network
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 9/023 Arrangements for display, data presentation or advertising

Abstract

A filter driver arranged to be executed on a processor of a terminal. The filter driver, when executed, is arranged to (i) receive a request for a first resource relating to a device installed in the terminal; (ii) determine if the requested first resource is appropriate for the device; and (iii) provide a second resource if the first resource is inappropriate for the device.

Claims

1. A filter driver stored as executable instructions in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the executable instructions executed on a processor of a terminal, and arranged to:

(i) intercept, by the processor, a request for a first resource relating to a device installed in the terminal that is an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) and the first resource is accessible from the ATM without a network connection and is one or more of;

an image file, a text file, an audio file and a video file and the device is one of;

a cash or check deposit device, a cash dispenser device, a scanner device, a keypad device, a printer device, a display device, a reader device, and a port device, and wherein the request intercepted by intercepting Input/Output directed to data files that emanate from a specific application processing on the ATM,

(ii) determine, by the processor, if the requested first resource is appropriate for the device,

ascertain, by the processor, if the requested first resource is appropriate for the device by accessing a configuration table after first determining when the configuration table should be updated and when updating is needed send a serial number for the ATM to a remote host and receive from that remote host the updated configuration table; and

(iii) provide, by the processor, a second resource from the terminal by modifying the Input/Output Request Packet to include a reference to a second resource and routing the modified Input/Output Request Packet to the device for processing and identifying the second resource as a different individual resource from a different collection of resources from that which is associated with the first resource, and provide the second resource when a unique string provided in the request for the first resource matches an entry in the configuration table for the second resource indicating that the first resource is inappropriate for the device.

2. A filter driver according to claim 1, wherein the filter driver includes the configuration table.

3. A filter driver according to claim 2, wherein the configuration table provides information about whether a resource is appropriate for the current configuration of devices on the terminal, or whether a different resource should be provided.

4. A filter driver according to claim 3, wherein the configuration table includes a unique string of characters associated with each type of device for which an I/O request for a resource may be made.

5. A filter driver according to claim 3, wherein the filter driver further comprises a configuration routine that updates the configuration table.

6. A filter driver according to claim 5, wherein the configuration routine accesses a registry of an operating system and populates the configuration table based on the contents of the registry.

7. A filter driver according to claim 1, wherein the filter driver registers to intercept all I/O requests to the data files.

8. A method of providing appropriate resources to a terminal for presenting to a user of the terminal residing in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and executed by a processor, the method comprising:

receiving, by the processor, a request for a first resource relating to a device installed in the terminal that is an Automated Teller Machine (ATM), the request represented in an Input/Output Request Packet directed to the device and the first resource is accessible from the ATM without a network connection and is one or more of;

an image file, a text file, an audio file and a video file and the device is one of;

a cash or check deposit device, a cash dispenser device, a scanner device, a keypad device, a printer device, a display device, a reader device, and a port device;

ascertaining, by the processor, if the requested first resource is appropriate for the device by accessing a configuration table after first determining when the configuration table should be updated and when updating is needed sending a serial number for the ATM to a remote host and receiving from that remote host the updated configuration table; and

providing, by the processor, a second resource from the terminal by modifying the Input/Output Request Packet to include a reference to a second resource and routing the modified Input/Output Request Packet to the device for processing and identifying the second resource as a different individual resource from a different collection of resources from that which is associated with the first resource, wherein providing further includes providing the second resource when a unique string provided in the request for the first resource matches an entry in the configuration table for the second resource indicating that the first resource is inappropriate for the device.

9. A method according to claim 8, wherein the step of ascertaining if the requested first resource is appropriate for the device includes transmitting without modification any request that does not include the unique string listed in the configuration table.