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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2016
Acumera, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Brett B. Stewart, Austin, TX (US);
Acumera, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
System and method for providing secure connections between a point of sale (POS) system and a datacenter. Upon initiation of a support event associated with the POS system, a gateway device may determine an available block of internet protocol (IP) addresses for the merchant location, e.g., by accessing information stored in a shared storage location. The gateway device may determine a local IP address of the POS system and establish an apparent IP address of the POS system, selected from the available block of IP addresses. The gateway device may initiate a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel to the datacenter using at least a subset of the available block of IP addresses. The gateway device may securely store a descriptive document in the shared storage location identifying the available block of IP addresses for the merchant location. The gateway device may performing IP address translation during the support event.