Patent ID: 7555461

Claim:
An automated transaction machine system comprising: an automated teller machine (ATM) including a transaction service, wherein the transaction service includes: a processor, a transaction device in operative connection with the processor, and a service proxy software component in operative connection with the processor, wherein the processor is operative to register with at least one other service in the ATM, wherein the processor is operative to cause a copy of the service proxy software component to be delivered to the at least one other service, and wherein the copy of the service proxy software component in the at least one other service is operative to cause at least one command to be communicated to the processor, wherein the processor is operative responsive to the command to cause the transaction device to perform a transaction function, a cell phone including an ATM service proxy software component, wherein the ATM service proxy software component is operative to output an ATM transaction menu on a display screen of the cell phone, wherein the menu includes indicia corresponding to the transaction function that the ATM is operative to perform, wherein the cell phone includes a data store, wherein the data store includes account information, wherein responsive to the ATM service proxy software component, the account information, and at least one cell phone user input corresponding to menu indicia, the cell phone is operative to cause the ATM to perform the transaction function.