Patent ID: 7073707
Filing Date: 2006-07-11
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of facilitating the construction of a cash drawer, the method comprising the steps of: (a) prompting a user to remove currency from a coin container which has been used and to place the currency into a new cash drawer which is initially empty; (b) determining substantially automatically an amount of currency that was removed from the coin container and placed into the new cash drawer; (c) if the amount of currency from the coin container does not meet a pre-established amount of currency for the new cash drawer, prompting the user to add supplementary currency to the new cash drawer from an inventory of currency until at least the pre-established amount of currency has been placed into the new cash drawer, wherein the inventory of currency contains a known amount of currency; (d) determining substantially automatically an amount of the supplementary currency removed from the inventory of currency and placed into the new cash drawer; and (e) updating substantially automatically a record of the known amount of currency contained in the inventory of currency to reflect the amount of supplementary currency removed from the inventory of currency.