System and method for managing social relationship information

Abstract

Disclosed are a system and a method for providing social relationship information about a user of various communication terminals, the system for providing social relationship information comprising: a related-person information storage unit for storing information about related-persons who are in contact with a user via a communication network; a contact record storing unit for gathering and storing communication contact records for the user and the related-persons; a relationship index calculation unit for calculating a social relationship index by analyzing the communication contact records; and a group information management unit for generating group information about the related-persons on the basis of the calculated social relationship index, and then providing the generated group information to a social network server or application.

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