Patent ID: 8376219

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 device, wherein the device includes a plurality of device ports and a network port, wherein each of the card reader, keypad, cash dispenser and receipt printer is operatively connected to a respective one of the device ports, wherein the network port is operative to communicate with a plurality of software device drivers operative on a remote computer, wherein the remote computer is remote from the automated banking machine, wherein communication with a remotely operating card reader device driver causes operation of the card reader, wherein communication with a remotely operative cash dispenser device driver causes operation of the cash dispenser, and wherein communication with a remotely operative receipt printer device driver causes operation of the receipt printer.