Patent ID: 8403205

Claim:
A method carried out in connection with automated banking machines that operate responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records to cause financial transfers, wherein each machine includes a card reader, wherein the card reader is operative to read card data from user cards, wherein the card data corresponds to at least one financial account, and wherein each machine operates to cause a comparison to be made of card data and stored data and is operative to cause financial transfers at least in part to determined correspondence between card data and stored data, and wherein each machine is operative to print a record associated with each financial transfer, comprising: (a) storing in at least one data store through operation of at least one computer, data corresponding to: (a)(i) a plurality of entities which each have operational responsibility for at least one of the automated banking machines; (a)(ii) for each entity, at least one identifier associated with at least one computer program operated in association with at least one automated banking machine for which the respective entity has operational responsibility; (a)(iii) a plurality of update code items, wherein each update code item is operative to provide update changes to at least one computer program; (a)(iv) for each update code item, at least one identifier associated with the at least one computer program in (a)(iii) to which the respective update code item is operative to provide update changes; (b) receiving through operation of the at least one computer, data corresponding to a first entity; (c) determining through operation of the at least one computer at least one update code item that can be used to make update changes to at least one computer program operated in association with at least one automated banking machine for which the first entity has operational responsibility.