Transferring money using email

US9536232B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• INC SQUARE, CO., LTD · JP

Inventors

• Jack Dorsey · San Francisco, US
• Robert Andersen · Henderson, US
• Bob Lee · San Francisco, US
• Brian Grassadonia · San Francisco, US
• David M. Byttow · San Francisco, US
• Austin Broyles · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 30, 2013
• Grant date: Jan 3, 2017
• Expiry date: Oct 30, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q40/02
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Method, systems, and apparatus for receiving the email message from a sender device; identifying, using data processing apparatus of a payment service system, a sender email address, a service email address, and one or more recipient email addresses from the email message; identifying, for the sender email address, a sender financial account associated with the payment service system and, for each of the one or more recipient email addresses, a respective recipient financial account associated with the payment service system; identifying a payment amount from a subject or body of the email message; submitting a request to transfer, using the payment service system, the payment amount from the respective sender financial account to the respective recipient financial account.