Patent ID: 8606612

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for exchanging information on upcoming event among participants of the event, comprising the following steps of: receiving information input via an input device by a user indicating an upcoming event, an event location, date, time and participants thereof and displaying the received information on a monitor screen; selecting, via the input device, a group of people to which the event applies from a plurality of groups different from one another stored in a database; checking, by a central processing unit, a database storing data regarding types of event in response to the information input by the user to determine a type of the event according to a keyword or a key phrase included in the information input by the user; retrieving information regarding items required for the determined type of event and generating, on electric devices of the participants, a template including a list of items to bring by the participants of the event, and the upcoming event, event location, date and time; sending the template to the electric devices of the participants of the event, thereby exchanging the template indicating the list of items for the upcoming event among the participants; and automatically allocating the items to bring to the participants based on predetermined factors and notifying the results of allocation to all of the participants where the predetermined factors include a distance between a participant and a store to procure the item, a price balance among the participants, and a skill or expertise of a particular participant.