Patent ID: 7959072

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine operated responsive to data bearing records, including: a housing; a card reader, wherein the card reader is operative to read data from user cards corresponding to financial accounts; at least one of a note acceptor and a cash dispenser, wherein the note acceptor is operative to accept currency notes into the housing and the cash dispenser is operative to dispense cash from inside the housing to machine users; at least one terminal processor, wherein the at least one terminal processor is in operative connection with the card reader and the at least one note acceptor and cash dispenser, and wherein the at least one terminal processor is operative to cause financial transfers involving financial accounts corresponding to data read from user cards; a power controller within the housing, wherein the power controller is in operative connection with an electrical connector extending outside the housing, wherein the electrical connector is configured to be connected with an external source of AC power, and wherein the power controller is in operative connection with at least one transaction function device within the housing, wherein the at least one transaction function device includes at least one of the card reader and the at least one of the note acceptor and the cash dispenser, and wherein the power controller is in operative connection with the at least one terminal processor; and wherein the power controller is operative to at least one of supply and shut off power to the at least one terminal processor and to the at least one transaction function device, at different times in at least one predetermined sequence.