Patent ID: 7784680

Claim:
A method of operating an automated banking machine adapted to dispense cash and to provide receipts for transactions conducted with the machine, comprising: (a) sending through operation of the machine, a first receipt in a receipt path toward a receipt outlet of the machine; (b) determining through operation of the machine, failure to deliver the first receipt from the machine through the receipt path, including determining that the first receipt is in a jammed condition in the receipt path, wherein the first receipt is associated with a transaction conducted through operation of the machine; (c) prior to generation of a machine malfunction signal indicating receipt delivery failure and while the first receipt remains in the machine, sending through operation of the machine a second receipt in the receipt path toward the receipt outlet, wherein the second receipt sequentially immediately follows the first receipt in the receipt path; (d) determining through operation of the machine whether the first receipt becomes freed from the jammed condition in the receipt path in response to the sending in (c) of the second receipt; and (e) operating at least one computer of the machine to cause the machine malfunction signal to be generated responsive at least in part to the occurrence of (b) and a negative determination in (d) that the first receipt became freed.