Patent ID: 7721953

Claim:
A method carried out with an automated banking machine, including: a housing; a card reader in operatively supported connection with the housing, wherein the card reader is operative to read card data from user cards, wherein the card data corresponds to financial accounts; at least one controller in the housing, and at least one data store in operative connection with the at least one controller; a plurality of transaction function devices in the housing and in operative connection with the at least one controller, wherein the transaction function devices include the card reader and at least one input device; at least one output device in operatively supported connection with the housing and in operative connection with the at least one controller; an article reading device in operatively supported connection with the housing and in operative connection with the at least one controller; wherein responsive to a condition of at least one of the transaction function devices, the at least one controller is operative to cause diagnostic data to be stored in the at least one data store; and wherein the at least one data store further includes authorization data usable to determine that a portable article releasibly engageable with the reading device is an authorized article; the method comprising: (a) operatively connecting a portable article and the article reading device of a machine, wherein the portable article includes article data thereon and wherein the at least one controller is operative to determine responsive to the article data and the authorization data that the portable article is an authorized article; (b) providing at least one input through the at least one input device of the machine, wherein responsive to the determination in (a) and the at least one input, the at least one controller is operative to cause indicia corresponding to the diagnostic data and significance of the diagnostic data to be output through the at least one output device.