Patent ID: 8407074
Filing Date: 2013-03-26
Classification: G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
1. A grouping system for grouping a plurality of participants participating in an event, comprising: a mobile terminal carried by each of the participants, the mobile terminal having adjacent terminal communicating means for directly transmitting/receiving information including information to/from an other mobile terminal; and a grouping management server for grouping the participants by transmitting/receiving information to/from the mobile terminals, wherein the grouping management server includes: a member personal information database for recording ID information of the participants; an ID information combination database for receiving and recording a combination of ID information obtained by one mobile terminal directly from another one or more mobile terminals by the adjacent terminal communicating means and ID information from the one mobile terminal transmitted by the one mobile terminal; an event management database for recording content of at least one event; an ID group management database for registering an ID group formed on the basis of the combination of the ID information; management server transmitting/receiving means for transmitting/receiving information to/from the mobile terminal; group managing means for forming the ID group by linking ID information combinations having common ID information, recorded in the ID information combination database; and control means for controlling the databases and the means, and the group managing means forms the ID group as an event participation group on the basis of a preset group forming condition, and wherein; the mobile terminal for obtaining ID information from another one or more of the mobile terminals by adjacent terminal communicating means has the functions of performing: a process operation of obtaining information of data destinations of mobile terminals from the another one or more of the mobile terminals via the adjacent terminal communicating means, and determining, on the basis of the information obtained from the another one or more of the mobile terminals, whether the mobile terminal has a system application for participating in the grouping system in a storage of the mobile terminal or not, and a process operation, when the mobile terminal is determined as a mobile terminal which does not store the application in its storage, of transmitting the information of the data destination of the mobile terminal obtained to the grouping management server, and the grouping management server has the function of performing a process operation of, when the information of the data communication destination of the mobile terminal is obtained from one mobile terminal, downloading the application to the mobile terminal and assigning a member ID on the basis of the information of the data communication destination.