Patent ID: 8413890

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: a plurality automated banking machines, wherein each of the automated banking machines operates responsive to data read from data bearing records, wherein each of the automated banking machines includes: a card reader, wherein the card reader is operative to read card data from user cards corresponding to financial accounts; at least one processor in operative connection with the card reader, wherein the at least one processor is operative to cause financial transfers involving financial accounts corresponding to data read from user cards responsive at least in part to correspondence between card data and stored data, a printer, wherein the printer is in operative connection with the at least one processor, and wherein the at least one processor is operative to cause the printer to print a record corresponding to each financial transfer, at least one computer in operative connection with at least one data store, at least one communication device and at least one input device; wherein the at least one data store includes data corresponding to: a plurality of entities, having operational responsibility for at least one of the automated banking machines, at least one computer program used by each of the respective entities in operation of the automated banking machines for which such entity has operational responsibility; communication information enabling communication with each of the respective entities; and wherein responsive at least in part to receiving at least one input through the at least one input device, which at least one input includes data corresponding to an update code item operative to provide update changes to at least one computer program, the at least one computer is operative to determine at least one entity using the at least one computer program in operation of a first automated banking machine, and to cause at least one message to be sent to the at least one entity through the operation of at least one communication device.