Patent ID: 8544730

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine, including: a card reader, wherein the card reader is operative to read from user cards, card data that corresponds to financial accounts, a display, a receipt printer, a cash dispenser, at least one terminal processor, wherein the at least one terminal processor is in operative communication with the card reader. the display, the receipt printer, and the cash dispenser, wherein the at least one terminal processor is operative in carrying out a financial transaction to cause: user card data to be read from a user card through operation of the card reader, a determination to be made that the user card data corresponds to a financial account authorized to have the transaction conducted through operation of the machine, the cash dispenser to dispense cash responsive at least in part to the determination, the financial account to be assessed a value corresponding to the dispensed cash, and the receipt printer produce a receipt corresponding to the value; at least one battery, a plurality of power sources other than the at least one battery, wherein the plurality of power sources include a solar panel, at least one power control processor, wherein the at least one power control processor is in operative connection with the at least one battery and each of the plurality of power sources, wherein the at least one power control processor is operative to cause the at least one battery to be charged by power supplied by a battery charger, wherein the at least one power control processor is operative to cause power to be delivered from the solar panel to at least one of the card reader, the display, or the receipt printer, wherein during the transaction, the at least one power control processor is operative to: (a) determine at least one amount of power required to operate at least one of the display, the card reader, or the receipt printer, (b) determine power currently available from each of the plurality of power sources, (c) cause power to be delivered to the cash dispenser from the at least one battery, and (d) cause power to be delivered from the plurality of power sources to at least one of the card reader, the display, or the receipt printer, responsive at least in part to at least one of the (a) or (b) determinations.