Patent ID: 7657473

Claim:
A method comprising: a) operating an automated banking machine to carry out a financial transaction involving a machine user associated with a phone number, responsive to authorization received for the financial transaction by the machine from a remote transaction host, including operating the machine during the transaction to send a transaction authorization communication toward the remote transaction host, wherein the machine includes a cash dispenser, wherein the cash dispenser is operative to dispense cash to authorized machine users; b) receiving data corresponding to the phone number through operation of the machine; c) subsequent to step (a), operating the machine to generate at least a portion of text message data including transaction receipt information corresponding to the financial transaction carried out in step (a); and d) subsequent to step (c), operating the machine to cause the at least a portion of text message data generated in step (c) and the data corresponding to the phone number received in step (b) to be communicated in a communication path which is independent of the remote transaction host, toward a text message server in operative connection with a mobile phone network associated with a mobile phone associated with the phone number.