Patent ID: 7946478

Claim:
A method of operating a banking system, comprising: (a) reading user data presented by a user, through operation of a reader in an automated banking machine; (b) operating at least one computer associated with the machine to determine that the user data read in (a) corresponds to stored data associated with an authorized machine user; (c) receiving a stack of sheets from the authorized user in a sheet access area of a deposit accepting device of the machine; (d) subsequent to (c), moving each sheet away from the sheet access area in a sheet path in the machine; (e) aligning each sheet in the sheet path by engaging each sheet with at least one transverse transport and sensing at least one edge of each respective sheet with a plurality of sensors; (f) evaluating at least one property of each sheet moved in (d) through operation of at least one sheet evaluation device of the machine; (g) storing together in a first sheet storage and retrieval device of the machine, all of the sheets evaluated in (f), wherein the first sheet storage and retrieval device is spaced from the sheet access area; (h) subsequent to (g), moving at least some of the evaluated sheets from the first sheet storage and retrieval device and toward the sheet access area, wherein the at least some of the evaluated sheets are moved prior to any evaluated sheet having reached the sheet access area after (f); (i) selectively diverting evaluated sheets moving toward the sheet access area in (h) that are acceptable to the machine based at least in part on the evaluation in (f), to a second sheet storage and retrieval device of the machine, wherein acceptable sheets are diverted before reaching the sheet access area, wherein the second sheet storage and retrieval device is spaced from both the sheet access area and the first sheet storage and retrieval device.