Patent ID: 9123192
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: G07D

Abstract:
1. A method for the processing of bank notes, the method comprising the steps: singling the bank notes, transporting the singled bank notes through a sensor device to several output units, checking the bank notes by evaluating data of the sensor device, determining and storing of serial numbers of the bank notes by a control device, and transporting the bank notes into the output units, in dependence on the checking step, in determining the serial numbers of the bank notes, a unique serial number is established for each bank note and stored in a database; wherein the unique serial number established for each bank note is a detected serial number or a generated unique identification; wherein, in the case that any portion of the serial number for a bank note is indeterminable, generating and storing a unique identification for this bank note in the database as the unique serial number instead of a detected serial number; wherein the unique identification comprises at least one of a random string of digits and alphanumeric characters differing from all previously determined serial numbers stored in the database and from previously assigned unique identifiers.