Patent ID: 7494047

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine including: a housing; 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; at least one output device in supporting connection with the housing and in operative connection with the at least one controller; at least one diagnostic article reading device in supporting 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 responsive to an authorized portable diagnostic article being operatively connected with the diagnostic article reading device of the machine, the at least one controller is operative to enable indicia corresponding to the diagnostic data and significance of the diagnostic data to operation of the machine, to be output through the output device.