Patent ID: 8832192

Claim:
An information processing system, comprising: an information processing device; and an information processing terminal, the information processing terminal comprising: own terminal operating user identification data storage configured to store identification data which identifies a user who operates the information processing terminal; other terminal operating user identification data receiving unit configured to receive identification data which identifies a user who operates another information processing terminal from the another information processing terminal via an ad hoc communication connection between the information processing terminal and the another information processing terminal without involving the information processing device in the ad hoc communication connection; other terminal operating user identification data storage configured to store the identification data which identifies the user who operates the another information processing terminal; and identification data transmitting unit configured to transmit, to the information processing device, the identification data which identifies the user who operates the information processing terminal and the identification data which identifies the user who operates the another information processing terminal in association with each other, the information processing device comprising: identification data receiving unit configured to receive the identification data which identifies the user who operates the information processing terminal and the identification data which identifies the user who operates the another information processing terminal, transmitted by the identification data transmitting unit; and user association unit configured to associate the user who operates the information processing terminal and the user who operates the another information processing terminal based on the identification data which identifies the user who operates the information processing terminal and the identification data which identifies the user who operates the another information processing terminal received by the identification data receiving unit and based on a previous exchange of data between the information processing terminal and the another information processing terminal while the users of said terminals were playing a game together over the ad hoc communication network.