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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 06, 2014
Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Narelle Cozens, New York, NY (US);

Michael DePasquale, Paris, FR;

Travis Harrison Kroll Green, Washington, DC (US);

Boris Mizhen, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Josh Ostrow, New Rochelle, NY (US);

Avery Pennarun, New York, NY (US);

Hoai Nguyen, Princeton, NJ (US);

Peter Schmitt, Jersey City, NJ (US);

Assignee:

GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/22 (2012.01); G06Q 20/32 (2012.01); G06Q 20/40 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 20/223 (2013.01); G06Q 20/3224 (2013.01); G06Q 20/405 (2013.01); G06Q 20/4016 (2013.01);
Abstract

Ranking payment requests includes a peer-to-peer payment system that employs a server configured for receiving a payment request from a requester computing device; receiving location data of the requester network device; receiving a request for a ranking of payment requests; searching social network information of the payor for occurrences of the requester of the payment request; receiving location data of the payor network device, the location data comprising a location of the payor computing device and a location history of the payor computing device; searching a transaction history of the payor; ranking the payment requests based at least in part on one or more of the location of the requester, a strength of social network connections to the payor for each of the payment requesters, and number of previous transactions between the payor and the requester; and providing the ranking of the payment requests to the payor.


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