Patent ID: 7726559

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine including: a card reader, wherein the card reader is operative to read data included on user cards; a housing; at least one display operatively supported by the housing; at least one input device operatively supported by the housing, wherein the at least one input device includes at least one of the card reader and a keypad; at least one transaction function device operatively supported by the housing, wherein the at least one transaction function device includes at least one of a printer and a currency dispenser; a diagnostic article reading device operatively supported by the housing, wherein the diagnostic article reading device is selectively connectable with diagnostic articles, and wherein the diagnostic article reading device is operative to receive data from a diagnostic article in operative connection therewith; at least one processor in the housing; at least one data store in the housing and in operative connection with the at least one processor; wherein the at least one processor is in operative connection with the at least one display, the at least one input device, the at least one transaction function device and the diagnostic article reading device; wherein the at least one processor is operative to cause the automated banking machine to carry out transactions, and wherein the at least one processor is operative to cause diagnostic data to be stored in the at least one data store responsive to at least one condition of at least one of the at least one input device and the at least one transaction function device; wherein responsive to a diagnostic article and the diagnostic article reading device being in operative connection, the at least one processor is operative to cause first indicia corresponding to at least a portion of the diagnostic data to be output though the at least one display, and the at least one processor is operative responsive to service data received from the diagnostic article through the diagnostic article reading device, to cause second indicia corresponding to at least a portion of the service data received from the diagnostic article to be output through the at least one display.