Payments in communication systems

US11978046B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Google LLC · US

Inventors

• Travis Harrison Kroll Green · New York, US
• Michael DePasquale · Rutherford, US
• Boris Mizhen · Brooklyn, US
• Josh Ostrow · New Rochelle, US
• Peter Schmitt · Jersey City, US
• Kevin Michael Bierhoff · Brooklyn, US
• Alevtina Stolpnik · New York, US
• Avery Pennarun · Montréal, CA
• Narelle Cozens · New York, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 13, 2021
• Grant date: May 7, 2024
• Expiry date: Sep 13, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q50/01
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Users of a communication system can initiate electronic payments during a communication session hosted by the communication system or via a social network identity page hosted by the communication system. The communication system detects a payment signal from a user of the communication system and the collects payment information details either by displaying a payment object interface in a communication application of the user or receiving payment information input directly from the user's communication device. The payment information includes sender and recipient payment account identifiers that are communicated to a payment processing system for processing and delivery of the designated payment amount to the recipient.