Abstract: When a consumer makes a purchase at a POS using a payment provider, the payment provider provides, to the merchant, a consumer identification (ID) and an authorization number, along with the payment approval. After receiving the information from the payment provider, the POS device sends a generated digital or electronic receipt to an email address of the payment provider. The email contains information about the payer and the authorization. Upon receipt, the payment provider may upload the electronic receipt into the consumer's mobile wallet or account using the payer ID and authorization number. As a result, the consumer can easily locate and access a receipt on the consumer's mobile device, such as by accessing the user's mobile wallet or the user's payment provider account on the mobile device, e.g., through a mobile app.

Abstract: When a consumer makes a purchase at a POS using a payment provider, the payment provider provides, to the merchant, a consumer identification (ID) and an authorization number, along with the payment approval. After receiving the information from the payment provider, the POS device sends a generated digital or electronic receipt to an email address of the payment provider. The email contains information about the payer and the authorization. Upon receipt, the payment provider may upload the electronic receipt into the consumer's mobile wallet or account using the payer ID and authorization number. As a result, the consumer can easily locate and access a receipt on the consumer's mobile device, such as by accessing the user's mobile wallet or the user's payment provider account on the mobile device, e.g., through a mobile app.

Abstract: When a consumer makes a purchase at a POS using a payment provider, the payment provider provides, to the merchant, a consumer identification (ID) and an authorization number, along with the payment approval. After receiving the information from the payment provider, the POS device sends a generated digital or electronic receipt to an email address of the payment provider. The email contains information about the payer and the authorization. Upon receipt, the payment provider may upload the electronic receipt into the consumer's mobile wallet or account using the payer ID and authorization number. As a result, the consumer can easily locate and access a receipt on the consumer's mobile device, such as by accessing the user's mobile wallet or the user's payment provider account on the mobile device, e.g., through a mobile app.

Abstract: When a consumer makes a purchase at a POS using a payment provider, the payment provider provides, to the merchant, a consumer identification (ID) and an authorization number, along with the payment approval. After receiving the information from the payment provider, the POS device sends a generated digital or electronic receipt to an email address of the payment provider. The email contains information about the payer and the authorization. Upon receipt, the payment provider may upload the electronic receipt into the consumer's mobile wallet or account using the payer ID and authorization number. As a result, the consumer can easily locate and access a receipt on the consumer's mobile device, such as by accessing the user's mobile wallet or the user's payment provider account on the mobile device, e.g., through a mobile app.

Abstract: A network device is allowed to transmit only authentication protocol traffic and no other traffic on an interface that is coupled to a port using port-based authentication until after authentication succeeds.

Abstract: A network device is allowed to transmit only authentication protocol traffic and no other traffic on an interface that is coupled to a port using port-based authentication until after authentication succeeds. If the network device is using a switch port that does not have authentication enabled, or if an authentication protocol client in the network device is disabled, then the device bypasses a delay and test process, which is otherwise used to allow the authentication to succeed before other packets are sent from the device.

Abstract: An approach is provided wherein a lack of wireless connectivity between a wireless network device and a wireless network is detected, and the wireless network device connects to an administrator device over a separate wireless network. Network configuration data is transmitted from the administrator device to the wireless network device over the separate wireless network and based on the network configuration data the wireless network device attempts to reconnect to the wireless network.

Abstract: According to an approach for configuring wireless devices, a wireless device determines whether it is currently configured to use secure wireless communications when communicating with other wireless devices. If not, then the wireless device configures one or more wireless security parameters so that the wireless device will use a secure wireless communications protocol to communicate with other wireless devices. The wireless device may also generate one or more encryption keys for use with the secure wireless communications protocol. The wireless device provides the one or more wireless security parameters and the one or more encryption keys to a user. The wireless device may print a page specifying the one or more wireless security parameters and the one or more encryption keys or generate and send to the user an electronic message, email or facsimile containing the one or more wireless security parameters and the one or more encryption keys.

Abstract: An approach is provided wherein a lack of wireless connectivity between a wireless network device and a wireless network is detected, and the wireless network device connects to an administrator device over a separate wireless network. Network configuration data is transmitted from the administrator device to the wireless network device over the separate wireless network and based on the network configuration data the wireless network device attempts to reconnect to the wireless network.

Abstract: A network device is allowed to transmit only authentication protocol traffic and no other traffic on an interface that is coupled to a port using port-based authentication until after authentication succeeds. If the network device is using a switch port that does not have authentication enabled, or if an authentication protocol client in the network device is disabled, then the device bypasses a delay and test process, which is otherwise used to allow the authentication to succeed before other packets are sent from the device.

Abstract: A network device is allowed to transmit only authentication protocol traffic and no other traffic on an interface that is coupled to a port using port-based authentication until after authentication succeeds.

Abstract: An approach is provided for collecting and reporting network device status data. The status data may be collected directly from network devices or via an intermediate device, such as a status data server, that collects the status data from network devices. The approach may include aggregating status data from several network devices so that the report data reflects status data from several network devices. The approach also includes formatting and translating data between one or more formats supported by the network devices, from which the status data was collected, and one or more formats supported by recipient devices to which the status data is reported. Status data and/or report data may be stored and report data provided to recipient devices based upon a specified time schedule.

Abstract: An approach is provided for collecting and reporting network device status data. Status data is received that indicates the status of one or more network devices. Report data is generated based upon the status data. Generating the report data may include formatting and translating the status data from one or more formats in which the status data was provided to one or more formats supported by one or more recipient devices. The report data may be provided to recipient devices immediately when generated or may be stored and provided to the recipient devices at a later time. Report data may also be retrieved remotely by recipient devices. In this situation, recipient devices are authenticated and request report data. The requests for report data are processed and report data is provided to the recipient devices.

Abstract: A novel plug-in for use with a standard network management software and a process for monitoring network devices utilizing such a plug-in. The standard network management software will already exist on a network and will operate to discover all devices on a network and store information about the discovered devices in a database. The plug-in can access the database and identify a first set of network devices from the database, and poll the first set of network devices for information. The plug-in can further utilize the information from the polled first set of network devices to set predetermined properties for at least one of the first set of network devices, and can determine error conditions in the first set of network devices from the information from the polled first set of network devices. The plug-in can further report at least one of the error conditions to a device management facility by an e-mail message, that can be encrypted.