Patent ID: 8002177

Claim:
A method comprising: (a) operating an automated banking machine to receive from a machine user, a request for a transaction comprising one of a check deposit transaction and a check cashing transaction, wherein the machine includes at least one reader device operative to read customer identification data provided by the machine user, wherein the machine is operative to allow the machine user to request a transaction responsive at least in part on the machine user being recognized as an authorized user of the machine based at least in part on computer-determined correspondence between customer identification data read by the at least one reader device, and authorized machine user identification information stored in at least one data store; (b) operating the machine to receive from the machine user, check data corresponding to a check associated with the transaction requested in (a); (c) operating the machine to resolve check information through analysis of electronic data representative of the check data received in (b); (d) operating the machine to cause the check information resolved in (c) to be sent to a remote transaction authorization computer; (e) operating the machine to receive authorization to carry out the transaction; and (f) operating the machine to carry out the transaction.