US Patent 10163171 Payment to a friend through a social networking service

In various embodiments, a content provider may provide interactive content that is a part of a social networking service. One or more frames may be embedded within the interactive content, where the one or more frames may be provided by a payment application. The payment application may be configured to enable a user to view a list of friends; enable the user to select (i) a fund amount and (ii) a friend from the list of friends to transfer the fund amount from the user to the friend; and communicate, by bypassing the content provider, with a payment host to transfer the fund amount from the user to the friend without additional information about the friend.