Patent Document ID: 8559695
Application ID: 13786290

Base Claim:
1. A method of using a U.S. currency processing device in a find mode to detect one or more find bills, a U.S. currency bill having been designated as a find bill in response to a selectable find bill element having been selected, the method comprising: receiving an input to cause the currency processing device to operate in a find mode; receiving U.S. currency bills in an input receptacle of the currency processing device; transporting the U.S. currency bills along a transport path in a serial fashion from the input receptacle, past an image scanner, to one or more output receptacles; imaging each of the U.S. currency bills with the image scanner to produce image data, the image data associated with each U.S. currency bill being reproducible as a visually readable image of at least a portion of a respective U.S. currency bill; extracting a serial number from the image data for each of the transported U.S. currency bills; denominating each of the transported U.S. currency bills; determining whether each of the transported U.S. currency bills is a find bill, a find bill having a serial number and a denomination stored in a find bill queue; and detecting one or more find bills.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the detecting the one or more find bills includes comparing the extracted serial number and the denomination associated with each of the transported U.S. currency bills with the serial numbers and the denominations stored in the find bill queue.