US Patent 8490864 Self-service machine contact me now

Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and apparatuses for responding to a problem associated with a self-service machine. For example, some embodiments provide a method that includes: (a) determining that a problem associated with a self-service machine occurred during a transaction involving the self-service machine and a user of the self-service machine; (b) prompting, via a user interface associated with the self-service machine, the user to submit a request, where the request is to receive, at a mobile device accessible to the user, a communication regarding the problem; (c) receive the request via the user interface; and/or (d) send the communication regarding the problem to the mobile device accessible to the user.