A group management assistance method includes a presence information receiving step (step S142) of receiving presence information of a client in which presence information changes, a change occurrence group detecting step (step S143) of determining whether a group to be generated by the presence information, a group in which constituent members are changed by the presence information, or a group in which constituent members are deleted by the presence information is present by comparing a policy of each group with the presence information, and a group information transmitting step (step S144) of transmitting group information related to the group to be generated, the group in which the constituent members are changed, or the group in which the constituent members are deleted.
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