Patent ID: 7036722

Claim:
An automatic transaction machine for deposits or withdrawals of bills, comprising: an operating component for a user to input an instruction of operation; a deposit port through which a bill can be given and received; a discriminating component configured to discriminate the bill; a temporary stacker configured to store the bill temporarily; a plurality of storage boxes each of which is configured to store bills of respective denomination; and a controller comprising: (a) a deposit counting means configured to cause the discriminating component to discriminate the bill deposited through the deposit port, and then to feed the bill to the temporary stacker temporarily; and (b) a deposit storage means configured to cause the discriminating component to discriminate the bill stored in the temporary stacker, and then to store the bill in one of the plurality of storage boxes based on the discriminated denomination of the bill, wherein when a process by the deposit counting means, out of the deposit counting means and the deposit storage means, and a process of cancellation of transaction through the operating component during the process by the deposit counting means are both detected, the controller generates notification of the detection outside the automatic transaction machine, and the controller is configured to monitor a number of occurrences of the process of the cancellation by an identical user in a predetermined time.