Patent ID: 7090122

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated banking machine including: a user interface, the user interface including at least one first input device adapted to receive at least one identifying input from each user of the machine; a cash dispenser, wherein the cash dispenser is selectively operative to dispense cash from the machine; at least one check reading device in the machine, wherein the at least one check reading device is adapted to read indicia on checks input to an opening of the machine; at least one check holding area in the machine; at least one transport in the machine, wherein the at least one transport is operative to selectively move checks in the machine between the opening, the at least one check reading device and at least one check holding area; at least one computer in operative connection with the banking machine, wherein the at least one computer is in operative connection with at least one data store; wherein the at least one data store includes data corresponding to at least one authorized user and data corresponding to at least one authorized check maker, and data associating data representative of at least one authorized user and at least one authorized maker; and wherein responsive to the machine receiving from a first user through the at least one first input device, at least one first identifying input corresponding to the first user, and reading through operation of the at least one check reading device a first check including indicia corresponding to a first maker, the at least one computer is operative responsive to data stored in the at least one data store to determine if the first user is an authorized user, the first maker is an authorized maker and the data corresponding to the first user is associated in the data store with the data corresponding to the first maker, and responsive to a determining that the first user is an authorized user, that the first maker is an authorized maker and that the data corresponding to the first user is associated in the data store with data corresponding to the first maker, the at least one computer is operative to cause the cash dispenser to operate to dispense cash to the first user and to cause the transport to move the check to the at least one check holding area in the machine.