Patent ID: 9367837
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: G06Q,G07F

Claim Text:
1. A machine for performing operations to handle physical cash and/or other physical financial documents in a mechanical manner, the machine comprising: a secure box having a mechanism for accepting cash and/or other physical financial documents into the box, and/or dispensing physical cash and/or other physical financial documents from the box; a physical network port for connecting to a controller via a network a slave module configured to send a first signal, submitted by a first user, to the controller for retrieving, from a data store of the controller, a list of one or more operations pre-ordered from amongst a plurality of requests stored on the data store from one or more users of one or more workstations, each request comprising a request to pre-order a respective one of said operations; wherein the slave module is further configured to send a second signal, submitted by said first user, to the controller for retrieving from the data store a selected one of the operations from said list; and wherein the slave module is further configured to receive back an instruction from the controller in response to said second signal, the instruction being to release the selected operation, and to operate said mechanism to accept or dispense the physical cash and/or other physical financial document in dependence on the instruction; wherein the instruction to release the selected operation is in response to a determination, which determination is in response to the sending of the second signal, that another, conflicting one of said physical cash-handling operations is not currently being performed by the same machine; and wherein said machine is not an automated teller machine (ATM).