Other

Hitachi, Ltd.

Yoshito Ohkawa

Koichi Sano

Yasuhiro Hashimoto

Koichi Haruna

Kunihiko Kido

Hiromitsu Kurisu

Masako Egashira

Toshiharu Kato

Masahiro Hanada

Introduction service is supported, in order to activate and facilitate community activities. A community management centersearches for offered-service information that matches at least partly with an application designated by a coordinator terminal, and selects participants specified by detected offered-service information, as introduction candidates. Then, an introduction candidate list that describes private information, desired terms, and possessed value of ticket for each of the selected introduction candidates is displayed on a coordinator terminal. When the coordinator terminalselects a participant to be introduced to the applicant, out of the introduction candidates described in the introduction candidate list, then, the private information and the desired terms of selected participant is displayed on a participant terminalof the applicant.

Introduction support method and system, and introduction method and system

Growing community of inventors

Yachiyo, Japan

Yoshito Ohkawa