US009 129271B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 9,129,271 B2 Jenrick et al. (45) Date of Patent: Sep. 8, 2015 (54) SYSTEMAND METHOD FOR PROCESSING 700/215, 224; 382/112, 135, 137, 138, CASNOTICKETS 382/140; 250/559.44, 559.45, 559.46, 556; 705/16, 17 (71) Applicant: Cummins-Allison Corp., Mt. Prospect, See application file for complete search history. IL (US) (56) References Cited (72) Inventors: Charles P. Jenrick, Schaumburg, IL (US); Robert J. Klein, Chicago, IL U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS (US); Curtis W. Hallowell, Palatine, IL 446,303 A 2, 1891 Tompson (US); Douglas U. Mennie, Barrington, 2,570,920 A 10/1951 Clough et al. IL (US) (Continued) (73) Assignee: Cummins-Allison Corp., Mt. Prospect, IL (US) FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this CA 223.5925 11, 1995 patent is extended or adjusted under 35 CA 218.9330 12/2000 U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. (Continued) (21) Appl. No.: 14/193,790 OTHER PUBLICATIONS (22) Filed: Feb. 28, 2014 Applied Communications Inc.: BASE24 software, "Applied Com munications Announces Joint Venture.” BusinessWire, 4 pages (Jan. (65) Prior Publication Data 6, 1989). US 2014/O175173 A1 Jun. 26, 2014 (Continued) Related U.S. Application Data Primary Examiner — Mark Beauchaine (60) Continuation of application No. 12/260,973, filed on (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Nixon & Peabody LLP Oct. 29, 2008, now Pat. No. 8,701,857, which is a (57) ABSTRACT continuation-in-part of application No. 12/058,370, A method of processing documents includes receiving a stack filed on Mar. 28, 2008, now Pat. No. 8,396,586, which of documents including currency bills and Substitute currency (Continued) media. Each Substitute currency medium has at least one barcode. The method further includes transporting the stack (51) Int. Cl. of documents via a transport mechanism, one document at a G06O20/18 (2012.01) time, along a transport path and denominating with a currency G07D 7700 (2006.01) detector each of the currency bills in the stack of documents. (Continued) The currency detector is positioned adjacent to the transport (52) U.S. Cl. path. The method further includes scanning with a barcode CPC G06O20/18 (2013.01); G06K5/00 (2013.01); scanner a barcode on each Substitute currency medium in the G07D 3/125 (2013.01); G07D 7700 (2013.01); stack of documents. The barcode scanner is positioned adja G07D 770026 (2013.01); G07D II/0051 cent to the transport path. The method further includes imag (2013.01); G07D II/0084 (2013.01) ing with an image scanner each substitute currency medium (58) Field of Classification Search in the stack of documents to generate a raw image file of the CPC .............. G06K 7/10; G07F 7700; G07F 19/00 Substitute currency medium. 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