Patent ID: 7455219

Claim:
A method for handling cassettes for bank notes, comprising the steps: determining the filling level of at least one cassette, comparing the determined filling level of the at least one cassette with at least one threshold value lower than a maximum capacity of the at least one cassette, producing a signal indicating the exceeding of the threshold value if the comparison yields an excess, and causing a replacement of the at least one cassette for which the signal indicating the exceeding of the threshold value was produced; wherein information about the bank notes contained in the at least one cassette is stored as cassette data, in a special, non-evaluable data format, in a nonvolatile memory associated with the at least one cassette; wherein master data for the at least one cassette are produced in an automatic teller and transmitted to a service center independently of the at least one cassette, and the master data are suitable for evaluating the information contained in the cassette data.