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Apple Patent Tips Plans for Money Transfer via iMessage

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By Manish Singh | Updated: 4 January 2016 18:43 IST

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Apple may soon allow s to send money to their friends using iMessage and a number of other means. A recently published patent has laid bare the company's proposed implementation of mobile payment features such as peer-to-peer money transfer. 5zm4m

The patent, which was granted to Apple in December and applied for in September last year, reveals company's a new mobile payment system that will allow s to send money to their friends using the iMessage client. The patent filing shows two s talking in iMessage. The patent shows a 'Make Payment' button in the top right corner of the screen.

It isn't clear how exactly this feature would work, though we believe that the money would get credited to the recipient's associated bank or Apple Pay wallet when a clicks on the Make Payment button. The patent, first spotted by Quartz, also reveals company's intention of baking this feature into phone calls, calendar invites, and emails. How exactly it plans to go about it is not clear either.

"[...] a interface for a communication application that includes a interface indicative of ongoing communication (e.g., a phone call, a text or multimedia messaging conversation, an email thread) between a of the device and one or more other participants is displayed. The interface for the communication application includes a payment affordance," the patent filing reads.

Of course, this isn't a new idea. BlackBerry Messenger.

The patent, however, adds weight to a Wall Street Journal report from last year which claimed that Apple was in talks with big banks such as J.P. Morgan to allow customers to send payments from their s to recipients using their Apple devices.

Do note that just because Apple has filed for a patent, it doesn't warrant the addition of the aforementioned features to its mobile payments system. The company, much like other tech giants, files for a range of patents every year and only a few of them make it to a finished product.

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