Patent ID: 8186672

Claim:
A method of providing an indication of the status of a document storage cassette attached to a document acceptor that is coupled to a host machine, the method being performed by the document acceptor and comprising: monitoring a number of documents in the cassette; monitoring a feed-rate of documents being inserted into the cassette; predicting when a capacity of the document storage cassette is expected to reach a specified level based on the feed-rate and the number of documents currently in the cassette; and generating an indicator or causing a message to be sent when it is determined that the capacity of the document storage cassette is expected to reach the specified level within a specified amount of time, wherein the indicator is in the vicinity of the document acceptor and is generated when the capacity of the document storage cassette reaches the specified level, wherein generating the indicator includes causing a blinking rate of a light source to change in accordance with a predicted amount of time until the document storage cassette reaches full capacity.