Patent ID: 8038057

Claim:
Method comprising: (a) operating at least one processor associated with an automated banking machine in verifying that a display device is authorized to be used by the machine to carry out at least one financial transaction, wherein the machine includes at least one input device operable to receive user input to the machine, wherein the at least one input device includes at least one reader operable to read user data corresponding to at least one of a machine user and a financial account, wherein the at least one processor is operable to cause the machine to carry out a transaction involving a financial account responsive at least in part to computer-determined correspondence between user data read by the at least one reader and the financial account, wherein the verifying includes (a1) operating the at least one processor independent of user input to the machine, to cause at least one first authentication signal to be sent to the display device, wherein the at least one first authentication signal includes first data; (a2) subsequent to (a1), operating the at least one processor to receive at least one second authentication signal originating from the display device; (a3) operating the at least one processor to analyze the at least one second authentication signal received in (a2); and (a4) operating the at least one processor to determine responsive at least in part to the analysis in (a3), that the at least one second authentication signal includes second data that corresponds to a manipulation of the first data.