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Money transfer in a forum using a payment proxy

US10402794B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 29, 2015
Grant dateSep 3, 2019
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Expiry dateJul 6, 2036

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L51/046
  • WIPO fieldIT methods for management
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Described is a technology for executing financial transactions, e.g., payment transfers, by enabling a sender to trigger a money transfer by specifying, in any communication message, a payment proxy having a particular syntax, the syntax including a currency indicator preceding one or more alphanumeric characters. The payment proxy having the syntax indicates an intent of the sender to transfer money to a recipient associated with that payment proxy. The technology can include systems and methods of transferring money by use of a payment proxy within the context of a forum (e.g., social networking platform, microblog, blog, application, etc.). Messages of users in the forum can be monitored to detect for any user's intent to transfer money to a recipient. For example, forum messages can be parsed to identify the syntax carried by a user input in a forum message.

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