Patent ID: 8157162

Claim:
A cash deposit apparatus comprising: a user interface module adapted to provide a user interface at a first external side of said cash deposit apparatus for allowing a user to interact with said cash deposit apparatus to transact a cash processing transaction; a cash processing module adapted to process, including at least to discriminate and to count, cash as deposited by said user for said cash processing transaction and to determine a value related to the processed cash, the cash processing module having a service interface for providing access to said cash processing module; and a cash storage module having a secure cash storage chamber, said cash storage module being adapted to receive and store in said cash storage chamber cash processed by the cash processing module, the cash storage module having a cash storage interface providing access to said cash storage chamber, wherein the cash processing module being independently configurable between a first cash processing module configuration wherein said service interface provides access to said cash processing module wherein said service interface provides access to said cash processing module from a second external side of said cash deposit apparatus, said second external side being different from said first external side, the cash storage module being independently configurable between a first cash storage module configuration wherein said cash storage interface provides access to said cash storage chamber module from said first external side of said cash deposit apparatus and a second cash storage module configuration wherein said cash storage interface provides access to said cash storage chamber from a third external side of said cash deposit apparatus, said third external side being different from said first external side, and the service interface and the cash storage interface being configured to prevent access to the cash processing module and the cash storage module during an ongoing cash processing transaction.