Patent ID: 8800864

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine, wherein the machine includes at least one reader, wherein the at least one reader is operable to read user data usable to identify a financial account with which the machine is operable responsive at least in part to computer-determined association between the user data read and the financial account, to carry out a financial transaction, wherein the machine includes at least one cash dispenser, wherein the at least one cash dispenser is operable to selectively dispense cash from a total amount of currency notes stored in the machine, to machine users authorized to request financial transactions based at least in part on user data read by the at least one reader, wherein the machine includes at least one data store, wherein the at least one data store includes cash data, wherein the cash data includes at least one of: cash dispense data which corresponds to an amount of cash dispensed by the at least one cash dispenser since a prior loading of cash into the machine, and cash remaining data which corresponds to an amount of cash remaining in the machine since the prior loading of cash into the machine, wherein the machine includes at least one data transmitter, wherein the at least one data transmitter is operable during a cash handling operation involving the machine to wirelessly transmit the cash data to at least one portable device that is operable to communicate with the machine and that includes at least one device data receiver operable to wirelessly receive the cash data transmitted by the at least one data transmitter, at least one device data store, electronic circuitry operable to cause the cash data received by the at least one device data receiver to be stored in the at least one device data store, and at least one device data transmitter operable to wirelessly transmit cash loading data stored in the at least one device data store, wherein the cash loading data corresponds to an amount of cash to be loaded in the machine during a cash handling operation, while the at least one portable device is located on site of the machine adjacently outside of the machine, wherein the machine includes at least one data receiver, wherein the at least one data receiver is operable during a cash handling operation while the at least one portable device is located on site of the machine adjacently outside of the machine, to wirelessly receive the cash loading data transmitted by the at least one device data transmitter, wherein the machine includes electronic circuitry operable to cause cash loading data received by the at least one data receiver to be stored in the at least one data store.