Patent ID: 7216800

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: an automated teller machine (ATM) operative to dispense cash responsive to a remotely-placed ATM identifier-based customer cash withdrawal request, including: at least one communication device, wherein the at least one communication device is adapted to communicate with a network, a cash dispenser, wherein the cash dispenser is adapted to dispense cash, a unique ATM identifier adapted to distinguish the ATM from other ATMs, wherein identifier data corresponding to the ATM identifier is obtainable by an authorized customer of the ATM, wherein the ATM identifier permits a customer cash withdrawal request including the identifier data to be made without customer input to the ATM, wherein the at least one communication device is operative to receive responsive to the identifier data in the request, instruction from the network to dispense cash corresponding to the request, wherein the cash dispenser is operative to dispense the cash corresponding to the request responsive to receiving the instruction.