Patent ID: 7611049

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: a card activated cash dispensing automated banking machine, wherein the machine includes; at least one first computer processor; a card reader, wherein the card reader is operative to read card data from user cards, wherein the card data corresponds to financial accounts, and wherein the card reader includes the at least one first computer processor; at least one second computer processor; a cash dispenser, wherein the cash dispenser is selectively operative to dispense cash stored within the banking machine to machine users, and wherein the cash dispenser includes the at Least one second computer processor; wherein the at least one first computer processor and the at least one second computer processor, responsive at least in part to being placed in operative connection with the machine, operate to cause the card reader and the cash dispenser to deliver a respective device driver from each of them to at least one other computer processor in the machine, whereby the card reader and the cash dispenser each become interoperative with the machine, and cause the machine to be operative to carry out a first financial transaction wherein the first financial transaction includes operation of the card reader to read data from a first user card corresponding to a first financial account, operation of the cash dispenser to dispense cash from the machine wherein the dispensed cash has a first value, and operation of the machine to cause the first financial account to be assessed a first amount, wherein the first amount corresponds to the first value.