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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2021
Paypal, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas Anthony Doran, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dennis Warren Koo Tze Mew, San Jose, CA (US);
PAYPAL, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for providing social network payments includes receiving a request to make a payment. The request is associated with a social network payer and a social network payee. It is determined that the social network payer is associated with a first payment provider identifier and an authorization token, and a second payment provider identifier for the social network payee is then retrieved using the authorization token. An instruction to make a payment from the social network payer to the social network payee is then transmitted to a payment service provider. The instruction includes a payment amount, the first payment provider identifier, and the second payment provider identifier. A payment alert is also adapted for a payee social network associated with the social network payee, and the payment alert is send to a social network provider device associated with the payee social network.