Patent ID: 7277888

Claim:
A method for minimizing the reintroduction of two people at a successive social event comprises the steps of: assigning each person wishing to attend a first and the successive social events a unique identifier; obtaining characteristic information about each person wishing to attend the successive social event, the characteristic information having at least two potential values; assigning an event identifier to at least said first social event and said successive social event; creating an event history associated with each unique identifier, the event history having elements corresponding to information associated with each event the person associated with the unique identifier has attended; allowing a person to attend the successive social event dependent upon a rule for screening attendees, said rule being a function of said characteristic information and said event history; selecting a first characteristic information value; assigning a first predetermined number of slots for the successive social event; allowing all persons with the first characteristic value to register for the successive social event until all of the first predetermined number of slots are filled; assigning a second predetermined number of slots for a successive social event to persons having a second characteristic value, the second characteristic information value having a value not equal to the first characteristic information value; and comparing the event history of each person wishing to attend the successive social event having the second characteristic information value with the event history of each registered person having the first characteristic information value, and barring registration of the person having the second characteristic information value if an element of the event history of the person having the second characteristic information value matches an element of the event history of the registered person having the first characteristic information value.