Patent ID: 7514646

Claim:
A check processing apparatus comprising: an image capture transport including (i) an image capture device for capturing images of physical checks in which each check has an assigned entry number associated therewith, (ii) a number of pockets into which physical checks can be sorted and in which each pocket has an assigned pocket number associated therewith, and (ii) a transport controller for providing information relating to physical checks which have been processed at the image capture transport; an encoding transport including a magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) encoder for encoding MICR codelines onto physical checks; a physical receptacle for (i) containing physical checks which have been processed at the image capture transport, and (ii) allowing the physical receptacle along with physical checks contained therein to be physically transported from the image capture transport to the encoding transport; an electronic label affixed to the physical receptacle and including (i) a physical display for displaying a visual message, (ii) a first communication interface for receiving electronic messages which have been wirelessly transmitted from another communication interface, and (iii) a processor for causing the physical display to display a visual message having both an entry number and a pocket number associated with the physical checks contained in the physical receptacle; a subserver for receiving information which associates the physical receptacle and the electronic label affixed thereto to a corresponding pocket of the image capture transport; a transmitter server for generating display messages based upon information from the subserver; and a second communication interface for wirelessly transmitting the generated display messages from the transmitter server to the first communication interface of the electronic label so that visual information including both the entry number and the pocket number associated with the physical checks contained in the physical receptacle can be displayed on the physical display of the electronic label.