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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2015
Block, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian Grassadonia, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jesse Wilson, Waterloo, CA;
BLOCK, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Described is a technology for facilitating money transfer between a sender and a recipient by use of a payment proxy associated with the recipient. The technology enables a sender, who desires to send cash to a recipient, using an application (e.g., a payment service application, a messaging application, etc.), to specify the recipient by inputting, in a message being created using the application, one or more alphanumeric characters and a monetary currency indicator prefixing the alphanumeric characters (e.g., $alex). The monetary currency indicator operates as a tagging mechanism that indicates to a computer system, receiving the message, to treat the input(s) as a request from the sender to transfer cash, wherein detection of a specified syntax, which includes the alphanumeric character tagged by a monetary currency indicator, triggers a transfer of cash.