Patent ID: 8195193

Claim:
A system for grouping a mobile Instant Messaging (IM) contact, comprising: a first IM terminal of a user, configured to send a query request to an IM module for querying a result of grouping a mobile IM contact of the user according to a region where a second IM terminal of the mobile IM contact locates, and display the result of grouping the mobile IM contact obtained from the IM module for the user; the IM module, configured to obtain the result of grouping the mobile IM contact from an automatic grouping module and send the result to the first IM terminal; and the automatic grouping module, configured to obtain information of the region where the second IM terminal of the mobile IM contact locates from a positioning module, generate a result of grouping the mobile IM contact according to the information of the region, and providing the IM module with the result.