Patent ID: 6929109

Claim:
A currency evaluation device for receiving a stack of currency bills and rapidly evaluating all the bills in the stack, the device comprising: an input receptacle adapted to receive a stack of bills to be evaluated; a plurality of output receptacle adapted to receive bills after evaluation; a transport mechanism adapted to transport bills, one at a time, from the input receptacle to the plurality of output receptacle along a transport path; a discriminating unit adapted to evaluate the bills, the discriminating unit including a detector positioned along the transport path between the input receptacle and the output receptacle, the discriminating unit adapted to determine the denomination of the bills and to detect the occurrence of a plurality of error conditions including a no call error condition when the denomination of a bill can not be determined; a memory adapted to store information associated with a plurality of modes of operation of the device, the memory being designed to store at least one user-defined mode of operation, the user-defined mode of operation being capable of subsequent recall and selection by a user of the evaluation device; an interface adapted to permit a user of the evaluation device to define the user-defined mode of operation, the interface receiving information from the user specifying how the device is to operate including how the plurality of error conditions are to be handled, the information being stored in the memory; and a mode selection element permitting the user to select one of the modes of operation.