Patent ID: 7577614

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: a first computer and at least one data store, wherein the first computer is in operative connection with the at least one data store and at least one network, wherein the at least one network is operatively connected to a plurality of ATMs, each ATM including a check imaging device and a cash dispenser, wherein the at least one data store includes data corresponding to a plurality of check receiving transactions conducted at the plurality of ATMs, and wherein for each check receiving transaction the data includes in stored linked relation: data corresponding to transaction identifying data received by the respective ATM conducting the transaction from a second computer disposed from the respective ATM other than the first computer, wherein the respective ATM dispenses cash responsive to messages received from the second computer, and data corresponding to an image of at least one side of the respective check received in the respective transaction, wherein the first computer operates to make data corresponding to a plurality of check receiving transactions selectively available to at least one other computer, wherein the first computer enables retrieval by the at least one other computer from the at least one data store of the data corresponding to an image of at least one side of a check received in a particular check receiving transaction based on the stored linked relation in the at least one data store of the data corresponding to the image of the at least one side of the check received in the particular check receiving transaction with the data corresponding to transaction identifying data received in the particular check receiving transaction.