Patent ID: 8862055

Claim:
A method for defining a group of mobile devices, the method comprising: (a) broadcasting, by each mobile device of a plurality of mobile devices via Bluetooth, a device name of a predetermined format comprising a user name and a uniform resource identifier; (b) receiving, by each mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices via Bluetooth device discovery, the device name of each of the other mobile devices; (c) determining, by each mobile device, that the device name of each of the other mobile devices corresponds to the predetermined format; (d) designating, by a mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices, to be a leader of a group based on the uniform resource identifier identified from the device name of the mobile device; (e) providing, by the mobile device, a list of user names identified from each of the device names corresponding to the predetermined format; and (f) receiving, by the mobile device, a selection of one or more user names from the list to form the group.