Patent ID: 8490867

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine that operates responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records to cause financial transfers, wherein the automated banking machine includes a plurality of transaction function devices including: a card reader operative to read card data from user cards, wherein the card data corresponds to financial accounts; at least one sheet handling device, wherein the at least one sheet handling device is operative to at least one of receive or dispense sheet media from at least one device cassette; at least one processor in operative communication with the card reader and the at least one sheet handling device, wherein the at least one processor is in operative connection with at least one data store, and wherein the at least one processor is operative to cause: a computer determination to be made that card data read from a user card corresponds to a financial account concerning which financial transfers are authorized to be conducted responsive to machine operation; and a financial transfer at least one of to or from the financial account responsive at least in part to the determination; wherein the at least one processor is operative to: cause operation of the plurality of transaction function devices in carrying out transactions through operation of the machine, wherein at least some transaction sheet media is at least one of received in or dispensed from the at least one device cassette, cause to be produced in the at least one data store, at least one representation of the at least one device cassette including at least one virtual cassette, wherein the at least one virtual cassette includes data representative of the at least one device cassette and data corresponding to at least one of a quantity or a type of sheet media included in the at least one device cassette, cause the at least one virtual cassette to be modified responsive at least in part to transactions conducted through operation of the machine.