Patent ID: 9558636
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,G07F,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for managing cash inventories of two or more automatic teller machines, the method comprising: receiving reservation request data from a first one of the automatic teller machines, wherein the reservation request data represents a request to reserve cash and specifies a user for whom the cash is reserved and an amount of cash to be reserved for the user; identifying one or more other automatic teller machines that (i) have respective locations in proximity to a location of the first automatic teller machine and (ii) store at least the amount of cash to be reserved for the user; sending reservation option data that identifies the other automatic teller machines and the respective locations of the other automatic teller machines; receiving reservation selection data that (i) represents a selection of a selected one of the other automatic teller machines made by the user, (ii) identifies the user, and (iii) specifies a confirmed amount of cash to be reserved for the user; and sending reservation data to the selected other automated teller machine that (i) represents a reservation of cash managed by the selected other automatic teller machine, (ii) identifies the user, and (iii) specifies a confirmed amount of cash to be reserved for the user, wherein the sending of the reservation data causes the selected other automatic teller machine to refuse to complete cash withdrawals for users other than the user that would cause the amount of cash on hand at selected other automatic teller machine to be less than the confirmed amount of cash until the selected other automatic teller machine has dispensed the confirmed amount of cash to the user.