Patent ID: 8559694

Claim:
A user-configurable currency processing device, comprising: an input receptacle adapted to receive input currency bills; a first fitness detector adapted to retrieve at least a first characteristic information relating to a first predefined fitness type from each of the currency bills; a second fitness detector adapted to retrieve at least a second characteristic information relating to a second predefined fitness type from each of the currency bills; a transport mechanism adapted to serially transport each of the currency bills from the input receptacle to the first fitness detector and the second fitness detector and then to one of a plurality of output receptacles; a physical memory device bearing assignments of designated values of said first characteristic information to predetermined ones of a plurality of first predefined fitness levels and assignments of designated values of said second characteristic information to predetermined ones of a plurality of second predefined fitness levels; a controller configured to process the first characteristic information retrieved for each of the currency bills processed by the first fitness detector and assign to each currency bill a first fitness level associated with the first characteristic information of the first fitness type and corresponding to a designated value of the processed first characteristic information, and wherein the plurality of defined fitness levels for the first characteristic information of the first predefined fitness type comprises at least one unfit level and a plurality of fit levels, wherein the plurality of fitness levels for the first characteristic information comprises an ATM fit level and at least two other distinct fit levels for the first characteristic information.