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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2024
Block, Inc., Oakland, CA (US);
Jack Dorsey, Oakland, CA (US);
Brian Grassadonia, Oakland, CA (US);
Robert Andersen, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Block, Inc., Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques disclosed include receiving, via a user interface of a first device associated with a first user, an input indicating an amount of funds to be transferred from a first user's financial account to a second user's financial account without identifying another user to whom the funds will be transferred; detecting, using an NFC wireless network, a second device that is in physical proximity of the first device, the second device being associated with a second user, wherein each of the first user and the second user have respective accounts registered with a payment service system; sending, by the first device and via the NFC wireless network, an electronic message requesting or sending a payment in the amount of the funds to the second device; and transmitting a notification to the payment service system to process the payment between the first user and the second user.