Patent ID: 9710812
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a payment gateway, via a first social network associated with a payer, a request for a payment to be made from the payer to the payee; in response to receiving the request, referencing, by the payment gateway, a database to determine that the payer is associated with a first payment provider identifier and an authorization token; in response to determining that the payer is associated with the authorization token, transmitting, by the payment gateway, the authorization token to a second social network associated with the payee, and causing the second social network to authorize a release of identification information associated with the payee based on a verification, by the second social network, that the authorization token corresponds to the payee, wherein the first social network and the second social network are different social networks; in response to retrieving the identification information associated with the payee from the second social network, determining, by the payment gateway, that the identification information corresponds to a second payment provider identifier by comparing the identification information to a database containing payment provider identifiers and identification information corresponding to each payment provider identifier; in response to determining that the identification information corresponds to the second payment provider identifier, providing, by the payment gateway, the first payment provider identifier and the second payment provider identifier to a payment provider to cause a payment to be made, by the payment provider, from an account associated with the first payment provider identifier to an account associated with the second payment provider identifier; and in response to determining that the payment has been made, causing, by the payment gateway, a payment alert corresponding to the payment to be displayed on a graphical user interface corresponding to a social network account of the payee in the second social network.