1. An apparatus comprising:
an automated banking machine that includes:
a processor associated with the automated banking machine, wherein the processor is operable to cause financial transfers involving accounts corresponding to the card data,
a sheet opening that is configured for at least one of a group consisting of receiving sheets into the automated banking machine that are stored by a cassette and dispensing sheets from the cassette,
an electrically powered coil within the automated banking machine that in the operative position is adjacent and external to the cassette,
a driver circuit that includes the first coil and a first capacitor,
wherein the driver circuit is operative to use amplitude shift keying communicate data to the cassette by varying the magnetic field intensity of the coil.
2. The apparatus set forth in claim 1, wherein the driver circuit is operative at a driver frequency near but other than a series resonant frequency of the at least one first capacitor and the at least one first coil.
3. The apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the driver circuit is operative to vary the magnetic field intensity of the first coil, wherein the variation corresponds to a first transmitted data; and
wherein the variation in magnetic field intensity causes detectable electrical changes in a coil within the cassette.
4. The apparatus according to claim 3,
wherein the driver circuit includes at least one of a group consisting of a driver processor and a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) operative to produce a square wave pulse signal, and a half-bridge Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor (MOSFET) driver in operative connection with the at least one of the group consisting of the driver processor and the FPGA; and
wherein the square wave pulse signal is varied between two frequencies in a manner that corresponds to a binary representation of the first transmitted data.
5. The apparatus according to claim 3,
wherein the first transmitted data corresponds to at least one of a group consisting of a document type, a document quantity, a document property, document ownership, document handling responsibility, a public key of a first publicprivate key pair, and at least one device operation instruction.
6. The apparatus according to claim 1, the automated banking machine further comprises an envelope detector operable to receive data from the cassette.
7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the data from the cassette is detected by detecting changes to amplitude of a voltage across the coil caused by a signal from the cassette.
8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the data from the cassette is at least one of a group consisting of a document type, a document quantity, a document property, a time value, a cassette identifier, a cassette property, cassette age, cassette cycles, cassette ownership, cassette history, a public key of a second publicprivate key pair, and at least one property of at least one sensor in the cassette.
9. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the amplitude shift keying is employed to receive the data from the cassette.
10. An apparatus, comprising:
a cassette that is configured to hold a plurality of sheets within an interior area thereof, wherein the cassette is removably positionable within an automated banking machine;
wherein in an operative position within the automated banking machine, the cassette is enabled to at least one of a group consisting of deliver sheets from the interior area and receive sheets into the interior area;
an electrically powered internal cassette circuit, wherein the cassette circuit includes a coil, wherein in the operative position, electrical power usable for operation of the cassette circuit is inductively produced in the coil; and
wherein the cassette circuit is operative to use amplitude shift keying to receive data from the automated banking machine that is detectable through the coil.
11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the cassette circuit includes a processor and a data store.
12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the cassette circuit includes a sensor.
13. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the cassette circuit includes an electrical actuator.
14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the cassette circuit includes a battery.
15. The apparatus according to claim 14 wherein the cassette circuit is operative to charge the battery.
16. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the cassette circuit includes a rectifier, wherein the cassette circuit operates responsive to direct current (DC) power produced responsive at least in part to operation of the rectifier.
17. The apparatus according to claim 10,
wherein the cassette circuit includes a capacitor that is in operative connection with the coil; and
wherein the coil and the capacitor have a parallel resonant frequency; and
wherein the parallel resonant frequency is close to a series resonant frequency of a second coil with a second capacitor in series with the second coil that are associated with the automated banking machine.
18. The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the cassette circuit is operative to vary the parallel resonant frequency that corresponds to transmitted data.
19. The apparatus according to claim 18, wherein the cassette circuit includes a selectively switchable capacitive load that is operative to vary the parallel resonant frequency through switching of the capacitive load in a manner that corresponds to a binary representation of the transmitted data.
20. The apparatus according to claim 10,
wherein the cassette circuit is operative to vary the magnetic field intensity of the coil, wherein the variation corresponds to transmitted data; and
wherein the variation in magnetic field intensity causes detectable electrical changes in the a coil associated with the automated banking machine.
21. The apparatus according to claim 20, wherein the second transmitted data corresponds to at least one of a document type, a document quantity, a document property, a time value, a cassette identifier, a cassette property, cassette age, cassette cycles, cassette ownership, cassette history, a public key of a second publicprivate key pair, and at least one property of at least one sensor in the cassette.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method of processing network messages in an accelerated processing device (APD), comprising:
receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal;
assigning the RF signal to a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) module in the APD for processing;
extracting, by the SIMD module, the network messages from the RF signal; and
processing, by the SIMD module, the network messages to obtain data transmitted via the RF signal.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the network messages comprise physical layer messages.
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:
parallel processing of the physical layer messages in the SIMD module.
4. The method of claim 2 further comprising:
processing a plurality of delayed incoming physical layer messages.
5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:
combining the plurality of delayed incoming physical layer messages to improve signal quality.
6. The method of claim 4, further comprising:
tracking signals between a transmitting party and a receiving party using a code agreed upon between the transmitting party and the receiving party.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein communication between the SIMD modules in the APD and a CPU is through an on-chip inter-connect.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the RF signal received is at least one of: a cellular signal, a WiFi signal and a global positioning (GPS) signal.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein the SIMD resources of the APD are allocated amongst the RF signal and graphics processing.
10. A system to process network messages in an accelerated processing device (APD), comprising:
a first module configured to assign a radio frequency (RF) signal to a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) module in the APD for processing;
a second module configured to extract, by the SIMD module, the network messages from the RF signal; and
a third module configured to process, by the SIMD module, the network messages to obtain data transmitted via the RF signal to an application.
11. The system of claim 10, further comprising:
a fourth module configured to receive the RF signal.
12. The system of claim 11, wherein the RF signal received is at least one of: a cellular signal, a WiFi signal and a GPS signal.
13. The system of claim 12, wherein the SIMD resources of the APD are allocated amongst the RF signal and graphics processing.
14. The system of claim 11, wherein the network messages comprise physical layer messages.
15. The system of claim 14, further comprising:
a fifth module configured to process in parallel the physical layer messages in the SIMD module.
16. \u2018The system of claim 14, further comprising:
a sixth module configured to process a plurality of delayed incoming physical layer messages.
17. The system of claim 16, further comprising:
a seventh module configured to combine the plurality of delayed incoming physical layer messages to improve signal quality.
18. A computer readable storage device having computer program logic recorded thereon, execution of which, by a computing device, causes the computing device to perform operations, comprising:
receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal;
assigning the RF signal to a single instruction stream multiple data-stream (SIMD) module in the APD for processing;
extracting, by the SIMD module, the network messages from the RF signal; and
processing, by the SIMD module, the network messages to obtain data transmitted via the RF signal.
19. The computer readable storage device of claim 18, wherein the network messages comprise physical layer messages.
20. The computer readable storage device of claim 19, the operations further comprising:
parallel processing of the physical layer messages in the SIMD module.
21. The computer readable storage device of claim 19, the operations further comprising:
processing a plurality of delayed physical layer messages.
22. The computer readable storage device of claim 21, the operations further comprising:
combining the plurality of delayed incoming physical layer messages after processing to improve signal quality.
23. The computer readable storage device of claim 21, the operations further comprising:
tracking signals between a transmitting party and a receiving party using a code agreed upon between the transmitting party and the receiving party.
24. The computer readable storage device of claim 18, wherein the RF signal received is at least one of: a cellular signal, a WiFi signal and a global positioning (GPS) signal.