Patent ID: 7845552

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: a transaction facility, wherein the transaction facility includes a waiting area and a customer station, wherein the customer station includes an ATM, wherein the ATM includes: a housing, a card reader in supporting relation with the housing, a cash dispenser in supporting relation with the housing, an ATM display in supporting relation with the housing, at least one processor in supporting relation with the housing, wherein the at least one processor is in operative connection with at least one data store, wherein the at least one processor is in operative connection with the card reader, the cash dispenser, and the ATM display, and wherein the at least one processor is operative to cause the cash dispenser to dispense cash from the ATM, wherein the waiting area includes at least one external display, wherein the at least one external display is other than the ATM display, wherein the at least one external display is spaced from the housing, wherein the at least one external display enables advertisements to be output therethrough to a customer waiting to use the ATM, wherein the at least one processor is operative to provide at least one external output signal from the ATM to control the at least one external display to provide messages different from those concurrently being output through the ATM display.