Patent ID: 8584935

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: a teller station, wherein the teller station includes a queuing indicator, wherein the queuing indicator is in operative connection with at least one customer sensor operable to detect customers at a plurality of transaction terminals, which are each usable by respective customers to conduct cash-depositing transactions and cash-receiving transactions, wherein the queuing indicator is operable to determine queuing information corresponding to an order in which customers at the transaction terminals are to be sequentially served by the teller station, wherein the teller station includes at least one terminal communication selector unit, wherein the at least one terminal communication selector unit allows a teller of the teller station to selectively establish two-way audio and video communication with a respective customer at each respective transaction terminal, wherein the teller station allows the teller to be involved with different transactions conducted at different transaction terminals, wherein the teller station allows informational material to be presented to other customers of other transaction terminals while two-way audio and video communication is being conducted between the teller and a customer conducting a transaction at a different transaction terminal, wherein the teller station includes at least one teller display, wherein the at least one teller display is in operative connection with the queuing indicator, wherein the at least one teller display is operable to display the queuing information, wherein the teller station includes at least one teller input device operable to receive input from the teller, wherein the at least one teller input device is in operative connection with the queuing indicator, wherein the teller station allows the teller to provide to the at least one teller input device, at least one first input that causes: two-way audio and video communication to be established between the teller and a first customer at a first transaction terminal that is to be served next based on the queuing information, and the at least one teller display to display transaction data associated with a check cashing transaction requested by the first customer, wherein the transaction data includes check data corresponding to at least a portion of a check involved in the check cashing transaction, wherein the check data indicates a check amount, wherein the teller station allows the teller to provide to the at least one teller input device, responsive at least in part to the displayed transaction data indicating that the first customer is authorized to conduct the check cashing transaction, at least one second input that causes: a cash amount associated with the check amount to be delivered to the first customer at the first terminal, and a financial transfer involving the cash amount.