Patent ID: 8381265
Filing Date: 2013-02-19
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A community member registration method for registering a member in a community service system in which a community service server, and authentication server and a plurality of portable terminals are connected via a network, wherein the community service server provides community service, the authentication server determines whether or not a member has authority to receive services provided by the community service server, and the portable terminals are capable of direct communication to each other, the method comprising: obtaining, by a portable terminal of an inviter, a terminal identifier of a portable terminal of an invitee by direct communication between the portable terminals of the inviter and the invitee; sending the terminal identifier obtained from the portable terminal of the invitee together with a registration request from the portable terminal of the inviter to the authentication server; issuing an account of the invitee in response to the registration request in the authentication server; notifying the account to the portable terminal of the inviter from the authentication server; and sending the account from the portable terminal of the inviter to the portable terminal of the invitee, wherein obtaining the terminal identifier of the portable terminal of the invite comprises: sending from the portable terminal of the inviter to the portable terminal of the invitee a request to send the terminal identifier of the portable terminal of the invitee by direct communication between the portable terminals of the inviter and the invitee; instructing the portable terminal of the invitee to display a message to inquire whether or not to send the terminal identifier of the portable terminal of the invitee in a case where the portable terminal of the invitee receives the request to send the terminal identifier of the portable terminal of the invitee; and sending from the portable terminal of the invitee to the portable terminal of the inviter the terminal identifier of the portable terminal of the invitee only in a case where an operation to permit sending of the terminal identifier of the portable terminal of the invitee is performed at the portable terminal of the invitee.