Patent ID: 8201732

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine, wherein the automated banking machine is operative responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records to cause financial transfers, wherein the automated banking machine includes: a card reader, wherein the card reader is operative to read card data from user cards, wherein the card data corresponds to financial accounts, a display, a cash dispenser, a keypad, and a receipt printer, a portal device, wherein the portal device includes a plurality of device ports including at least one display port, and at least one network port, wherein each of the card reader, cash dispenser, keypad and receipt printer are in operative connection with respective ones of the device ports, and are operative to communicate device bus communications through the respective device ports, wherein the portal device is operative to communicate the device bus communications through the at least one network port via a network protocol with a remote computer, wherein the device bus communications through the portal device are operative to cause the card reader to operate to read card data from a user card corresponding to a financial account, the cash dispenser to operate to dispense an amount of cash from the machine, and the receipt printer to operate to print a receipt, wherein the receipt includes indicia corresponding to the amount of cash dispensed.