Patent ID: 8370499

Claim:
A self-service terminal comprising: a plurality of session initiation devices, each associated with an initiation token, so that a customer can initiate a transaction using one of a plurality of different initiation tokens; a plurality of session suppliers, each session supplier being associated with one of the session initiation devices, and each session supplier being operable: (i) to receive from its associated session initiation device, information from an initiation token provided by a customer, and (ii) to create an electronic access token based on the received information; a session supplier aggregate compatible with the plurality of session suppliers and able to receive an electronic access token from any of the plurality of session suppliers, but only conveying one electronic access token for each session to be created; and a session component operable (i) to receive the one electronic access token from the session supplier aggregate and (ii) to create a session based on the received electronic access token.