Patent ID: 6560355
Filing Date: 2003-05-06
Classification: G06K,G07D

Abstract:
A currency processing system including a plurality of individual currency handling devices linked together in a network, the currency processing system comprising:at least one controller adapted to communicate with each of the currency handling devices and to receive information associated with suspect document error signals generated by each of the of the currency handling devices, the at least one controller being adapted to process the received information associated with suspect document error signals to derive a record of the number of suspect document error signals; and at least one system memory adapted to store the record of the number of suspect document error signals in a manner to permit subsequent recall; wherein each of the currency handling devices comprises an input receptacle adapted to receive a stack of currency bills; an evaluation region adapted to retrieve authenticating characteristic information from each of the bills; a transport mechanism adapted to transport the bills from the input receptacle, one at a time, past the evaluation region to at least one output receptacle; and a device processor adapted to authenticate each of the currency bills by comparing the retrieved authenticating characteristic information obtained from each of the bills to master authenticating information, the processor being adapted to generate a suspect document error signal when the retrieved authenticating characteristic information does not favorably compare with the master authenticating characteristic information.