Patent ID: 7284695

Claim:
A method comprising: (a) receiving with a computer, user data wherein the user data is generated through operation of a cash dispensing automated banking machine, wherein the automated banking machine is remotely located from the computer, and wherein the user data corresponds to a user of the automated banking machine, wherein the user data corresponds to at least one input received through at least one input device of the automated banking machine from the user; (b) receiving with the computer maker data, wherein the maker data is generated through operation of the automated banking machine, wherein the maker data corresponds to a maker of a check received by the automated banking machine from the user and read by a check reading device in the automated banking machine; (c) determining through operation of the computer responsive to the user data, the maker data and data stored in at least one data store in operative connection with the computer, that: (c)(i) the user data is associated with an authorized user; (c)(ii) the maker data is associated with an authorized maker; and (c)(iii) the user data and the maker data are associated; (d) responsive to at least the determination in (c), operating the computer to cause at least one message to be sent from the computer, wherein the at least one message is operative to cause the automated banking machine to dispense cash to the user.