Patent ID: 7861921

Claim:
A method comprising: (a) operating at least one processor in a cash dispensing automated banking machine to conduct a transaction through operation of the machine, wherein conducting the transaction includes: (a)(i) reading a card through operation of a card reader of the machine; (a)(ii) receiving at least one confidential input from a machine user through a keypad of the machine, wherein the at least one processor is operative to cause the keypad to encrypt signals output by the keypad corresponding to inputs therethrough only during a first period of the transaction when the at least one processor requires the at least one confidential input for the transaction to continue; (b) operating the at least one processor to analyze signals causing a display to provide outputs, and to determine that the display is providing at least one output requesting at least one confidential input during a second period of the transaction when the at least one processor does not require the at least one confidential input for the transaction to continue.