Patent ID: 8052047

Claim:
A method carried out in connection with an automated banking machine that operates to cause financial transfers responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records, comprising: a) through operation of at least one computer in the automated banking machine that reads card data corresponding to financial accounts from user cards with a card reader, at least one of installing and updating at least one software component on at least one storage device, wherein the automated banking machine includes the card reader, the at least one storage device, and a cash dispenser in operative connection with the at least one computer, wherein the automated banking machine includes a chest, wherein at least portions of the cash dispenser are located in the chest, wherein the chest includes a door and at least one input device mounted inside the chest, wherein the cash dispenser includes at least one processor that is operative to cause the cash dispenser to dispense cash responsive to communications received from the at least one software component operating in the at least one computer of the automated banking machine, wherein the at least one computer is in operative connection with the at least one input device located in the chest, wherein the at least one input device located in the chest is accessible to a user when the door of the chest is in an open position, wherein the at least one input device located in the chest is not accessible to a user when the door of the chest is in a closed position: b) through operation of the at least one computer, receiving an input through manual operation of the at least one input device located in the chest while the door to the chest is in the open position; c) responsive to (b) through operation of the at least one processor of the cash dispenser, storing at least one reference measurement of the at least one software component in the cash dispenser; d) through operation of the at least one processor of the cash dispenser, authenticating the at least one software component using the at least one reference measurement stored in (c), prior to permitting the cash dispenser to dispense cash responsive to communications received from the at least one software component operating in the at least one computer.