Patent ID: 7997418

Claim:
A device for sorting bank notes, comprising: an input compartment adapted to hold bank notes of different denominations which are to be sorted, a plurality of output compartments adapted to receive sorted bank notes, a conveying system arranged to convey bank notes from the input compartment to one of the output compartments, the compartment being selected in response to signals from a control device, wherein the control device is configured to output the signals to the conveying system on the basis of different predefined denominations and numbers of bank notes designated for each of at least two of the plurality of the output compartments so that bank notes of a plurality of different denominations input into the input compartment are automatically sorted directly into the output compartments so that each of the at least two output compartments receive the respective different predefined denominations and numbers of bank notes designated for the respective at least two of the plurality of output compartments; and wherein the control device comprises a memory for storing at least some components of an identifier, and the control device is configured to generate, on the basis of the components stored from at least one previous individualized processing operation, proposals for an identifier of an individualized processing operation which is still to be carried out; wherein a selected one of the proposed identifiers is utilized by the control device to determine into which output compartment the bank notes are to be output.