Patent ID: 8573481

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine that includes a plurality of hardware devices including: a card reader operable to read from user cards, card data that corresponds to financial accounts; at least one device operative to at least one of accept or dispense cash; at least one computer processor in operative communication with the card reader and the at least one device operative to at least one of accept or dispense cash, wherein the at least one computer processor is operative to cause: a computer determination to be made that card data read from a user card corresponds to a financial account concerning which financial transfers are authorized to be conducted through machine operation; and a financial transfer at least one of to or from the financial account responsive at least in part to the determination; wherein at least one of the hardware devices includes at least one device processor, at least one data store, and at least one diagnostic interface, wherein the at least one device processor is operatively configured to store information in the at least one data store representative of at least one of a plurality of different device conditions determinable by the at least one device processor for the at least one hardware device, wherein the at least one device processor is operatively configured to communicate to the at least one computer processor, data representative of a least some of the device conditions corresponding to the information stored in the at least one data store, wherein the at least one device processor is operatively configured to cause the at least one diagnostic interface to wirelessly communicate to an external portable device, data representative of at least some of the device conditions corresponding to the information stored in the at least one data store, wherein the at least one device processor is operatively configured to cause wireless communication of data corresponding to at least one device condition through the at least one diagnostic interface toward the external portable device, wherein the at least one device processor is not operatively configured to communicate data corresponding to the at least one device condition to the at least one computer processor.