Obtaining recipient information during an electronic remittance transaction

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9978068-B2
Application number	US-201414509871-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 8, 2014
Priority date	Oct 8, 2014
Publication date	May 22, 2018
Grant date	May 22, 2018

Abstract

One or more embodiments described herein include methods and systems for remitting funds via a social networking system. More specifically, systems and methods described herein provide users the ability to remit funds to co-users utilizing social network profiles and notifications. Additionally, systems and methods described herein determine one or more risk levels for a remittance request based on a variety of social network factors.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving a request from a sender, at one or more servers of a social network, to electronically remit funds to a recipient, wherein the sender and the recipient are associated via the social network;
determining, by the one or more servers of the social network and prior to completing the received request to electronically remit funds to the recipient, that remittance information is needed from the recipient to electronically remit the funds to the recipient;
saving, by the one or more servers of the social network, one or more transaction details related to the request to electronically remit funds to the recipient;
sending, by the one or more servers of the social network and prior to completing the received request to electronically remit funds to the recipient, a remittance information request to the recipient via the social network;
receiving, at the one or more servers of the social network, the requested remittance information from the recipient; and
in response to receiving the requested remittance information from the recipient, completing, by the one or more servers of the social network, the received request to electronically remit funds to the recipient using the saved one or more transaction details and the received remittance information.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein receiving the request from the sender, at one or more servers of the social network, to electronically remit funds to the recipient comprises receiving one or more transaction parameters from the sender.

3. The method as recited in claim 2 , wherein the one or more transaction parameters comprise one or more of a recipient identity, a sender identity, a remittance amount, a destination country, or a reception method.

4. The method as recited in claim 3 , wherein a reception method comprises a local agent, a bank account, or a mobile wallet.

5. The method as recited in claim 2 , wherein saving, by the one or more servers of the social network, one or more transaction details related to the request to electronically remit funds to the recipient comprises saving the one or more transaction parameters received from the sender.

6. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein determining, by the one or more servers of the social network and prior to completing the received request to electronically remit funds to the recipient, that remittance information is needed from the recipient comprises determining the recipient's personal information is needed.

7. The method as recited in claim 6 , wherein the recipient's personal information comprises one or more of the recipient's legal name, the recipient's address, the recipient's phone number, the recipient's email address, or the recipient's bank account information.

8. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein sending, by one or more servers of the social network and prior to completing the received request to electronically remit funds to the recipient, a remittance information request to the recipient via the social network comprises sending a social network notification to the recipient.

9. The method as recited in claim 8 , further comprising providing one or more social network forms to allow the recipient to enter personal information upon the user interacting with the social network notification.

10. The method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising calculating an exchange rate between a currency of a country of the sender and a currency of a country of the recipient upon receiving the requested remittance information.

11. A method comprising:
receiving a request from a sender, at one or more servers of a social network, to electronically remit funds;
receiving, at one or more servers of the social network and from a sender, a selection of a recipient for the electronic remittance of the funds and one or more transaction details related to the electronic remittance of the funds, wherein the selection of the recipient and the one or more transaction details are received via one or more social network graphical user interfaces and the recipient and the sender are connected via the social network;
determining, by the one or more servers of the social network and prior to initiating an electronic remittance of funds, that remittance information is needed for the selected recipient;
sending, by the one or more servers of the social network, a request to the recipient via the social network to supply the remittance information using contact information for the recipient stored by the social network;
receiving, by the one or more servers of the social network, the remittance information from the recipient; and
in response to receiving the remittance information from the recipient, initiating the electronic remittance of funds, by the one or more servers of the social network, to the recipient using the one or more transaction details and the remittance information received from the recipient.

12. The method as recited in claim 11 , wherein receiving, at one or more servers of the social network and from the sender, a selection of a recipient for the electronic remittance of the funds comprises receiving a selection of a social network identity of the recipient via the one or more social network graphical user interfaces.

13. The method as recited in claim 12 , wherein receiving, at one or more servers of the social network and from the sender, one or more transaction details related to the electronic remittance of the funds via one or more social network graphical user interfaces comprises receiving one or more of a recipient identity, a sender identity, a remittance amount, a destination country, or a reception method.

14. The method as recited in claim 13 , wherein determining, by one or more servers of the social network and prior to initiating the electronic remittance of funds, that remittance information is needed for the selected recipient comprises determining that one or more of a legal name, an address, a phone number, an email address, or bank account information is needed from the selected recipient.

15. The method as recited in claim 14 , wherein sending, by one or more servers of the social network, a request to the recipient via the social network to supply the remittance information using contact information for the recipient stored by the social network comprises sending the recipient a social network notification.

16. The method as recited in claim 15 , wherein sending the social network notification comprises sending one or more of a pop-up notification, a social network message, or an icon notification.

17. The method as recited in claim 16 , further comprising sending, by the one or more servers, a confirmation to the sender via the social network that the recipient has supplied the requested remittance information.

18. The method as recited in claim 17 , further comprising, prior to initiating the electronic remittance of funds to the recipient, providing the one or more transaction details and the remittance information received from the recipient in one or more social network graphical user interfaces to the sender for review.

19. A social networking system comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the social networking system to:
receive a request to electronically remit funds to a recipient, wherein the sender and the recipient are associated via the social networking system;
determi

Assignees

• Facebook Inc

Inventors

• Butterfield John Hamilton
• Davis Stephen Moore

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• G06Q20/4016

  involving fraud or risk level assessment in transaction processing · CPC title

• G06Q20/223

  based on the use of peer-to-peer networks · CPC title

• G06Q50/01

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q20/405 Primary

  Establishing or using transaction specific rules · CPC title