Abstract: The revenue stream of a master agent and a Sub Agent marketing wireless products and services is enhanced by providing wireless services not provided by upstream Carriers of wireless services. The master Agent or Sub Agent can independently contract to market the wireless services of other third parties, where such wireless services are not provided by the upstream Carrier. These ancillary wireless services are then marketed to the customer base of the Sub Agent, together with the wireless products or services of the upstream Carrier.

Abstract: A system for processing credit card transactions is disclosed. Merchant locations include at least one Internet protocol (IP) capable credit card terminal, either connected directly to a wide area network such as the Internet, or connected to the Internet via a router. The IP-capable credit card terminal forwards transaction information over the Internet, and biometric information regarding the presenting customer if desired and if available, which is processed by a credit card processing system. According to one embodiment of the invention, the credit card processing system is an IP credit card gateway processor, which formats the transaction information into a conventional format for processing by a credit card processor.

Abstract: A system for processing credit card transactions is disclosed. Merchant locations include at least one Internet protocol (IP) capable credit card terminal, either connected directly to a wide area network such as the Internet, or connected to the Internet via a router. The IP capable credit card terminal forwards transaction information over the Internet, and biometric information regarding the presenting customer if desired and if available, which is processed by a credit card processing system. According to the embodiment of the invention, the credit card processing system is an IP credit card gateway processor, which formats the transaction information into a conventional format for processing by a credit card processor.