Dynamic ATM Payloads for Regional Interface Compliance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users accessing ATMs outside their home region face language and transaction option unfamiliarity, necessitating a dynamically adaptable ATM interface and transaction rules, while complying with international regulations.

Innovation Solution

A dynamically generated software payload is deployed via a secure global channel using a Holochain framework, leveraging smart contract logic and AI to customize the ATM interface and transaction rules based on user data and metadata, routed through spine-leaf switches to comply with regulatory requirements.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a default ATM interface is used for international users, then the ATM can operate with a standardized configuration, but users experience language and transaction option unfamiliarity

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveATM interface adaptabilityVSAvoidATM software configuration
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The ATM interface dynamically loads and switches between different language packs and transaction option sets based on the detected user's home region. The system transitions from a static default interface to a dynamic multi-language interface that adapts in real-time, resolving the contradiction between maintaining a simple default configuration and providing customized regional interfaces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The ATM is designed with universal functionality to support multiple languages and transaction types through a single interface framework. By integrating multiple language packs and transaction option sets into one system, the ATM achieves multi-functionality without requiring separate hardware configurations for different regions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If custom payload is dynamically generated and deployed, then the ATM interface adapts to user preferences, but network transmission security and compliance complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovePayload customizationVSAvoidNetwork transmission compliance
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary payload generation system that acts as a mediator between the user's regional requirements and the ATM's core functionality. This intermediary layer generates customized payloads containing language packs and transaction options while enforcing compliance rules, thus adapting the interface without compromising transmission security or regulatory compliance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If payload is deployed via secure global channel with spine-leaf switches, then regulatory compliance is ensured, but deployment time and network complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveRegulatory complianceVSAvoidPayload deployment time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring spine-leaf network switches with compliance routing rules before payload deployment. The network path is pre-established and validated for regulatory compliance, allowing the actual payload transmission to occur quickly without real-time compliance checking delays.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

4Manufacturing precision

If AI generates custom payload based on smart contract logic, then transaction accuracy and user personalization improve, but computational resources and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveTransaction rule accuracyVSAvoidAI processing energy
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service through smart contract logic that automatically validates and enforces transaction rules without requiring extensive AI processing. The AI component generates initial payload recommendations, but the smart contracts autonomously verify compliance and execute transactions, reducing the energy burden on AI systems while maintaining high accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12400199B2Dynamic custom automated teller machine (ATM) payload
Publication Date: 2025.08.26 BANK OF AMERICA CORP
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AI summary

Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for implementing a dynamically customized ATM payload. An ATM may extract a user identifier and home region during a session. The ATM may be a node on a distributed network and securely publish data to a distributed hash table. Extracted data may trigger smart contract logic including a transaction rule associated with the user and a transmission rule restricting network switches for payload delivery outside the home region. AI algorithms may generate a custom payload including the transaction rule and an interface adapted for the user home region. The payload may be pushed to the ATM via a set of spine-leaf switches based on the transmission rule. The payload may be deployed at the ATM during the session to modify a default ATM interface and a default ATM transaction rule. The ATM may purge the payload from memory when the session is terminated.