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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2014
Filed:
May. 17, 2013
The Western Union Company, Englewood, CO (US);
Kurt Hansen, Parker, CO (US);
Thomas Sayor, Castle Rock, CO (US);
The Western Union Company, Englewood, CO (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides systems and methods to initiate, facilitate, process and/or perform money transfers. One such method includes receiving a request for a transfer pair verification from a vendor location (), and verifying that the transfer pair is associated with a valid transfer pair record (). The method includes sending the transfer pair verification to the vendor location (), receiving a money transfer request () associated with the transfer pair from the vendor location, and authorizing a money transfer () to at least one of a first and second customers associated with the transfer pair. In this manner, a vendor location, which may include a point-of-sale device and may be a retail outlet (e.g., grocery store, gas station, or the like), can be used to facilitate a money transfer between two customers.