Patent ID: 7980460

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: a plurality of automated banking machines that operate responsive to data read from data bearing records to cause financial transfers, wherein each automated banking machine includes: at least one input device wherein the at least one input device includes a card reader operative to read card data from user cards, wherein the card data corresponds to financial accounts; a cash dispenser; a check reading device; at least one output device; at least one data store; at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is in operative connection with the cash dispenser, the check reading device, the at least one input device, the at least one output device, and the at least one data store, wherein the at least one processor is operative to cause the automated banking machine to produce image data corresponding to visual appearance of at least a portion of checks received by the check reading device; at least one network in operative connection with each of the plurality of automated banking machines; wherein the at least one processor of each automated banking machine includes software operating therein that is operative to cause image data corresponding to an image of at least one side of a first check received by a first automated banking machine, to be sent through the at least one network to a plurality of other automated banking machines and stored in a plurality of different data pieces each including a portion of the image data, in at least one data store in each of the plurality of other automated banking machines.