Patent ID: 6505178
Filing Date: 2003-01-07
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
An Automatic Teller Machine comprising:a. a processor connected to b. a memory, c. a screen display, d. a user input means, e. a card reader, and f. a storage medium, said storage medium being adapted to store i. operating system software, ii. Internet browser software cooperable with said operating system software to display Internet web pages on said screen display and to receive user input from said user input means; iii. a peripheral controller component adapted to be instantiated from a web page and comprising means for reading a card inserted in said card reader; and iv. a memory controller component operable by a plurality of Internet applications, each Internet application comprising one or more web pages, said component being adapted to be instantiated from any one or more of the web pages and comprising: connect means adapted to check if a pre-determined area of memory shareable by more than one web page has been allocated by another instance of said component instantiated from a different web page, said different web page belonging to another Internet application than that comprising the page which instantiated said component, and responsive to said shared memory not being allocated, to allocate said shared memory; variable setting means adapted to allocate an area in shared memory for a variable and to store said variable; and variable retrieval means adapted to locate said variable in said shared memory.