Patent ID: 9363106
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: G06Q,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for receiving a contact in a client terminal through interworking between a messaging service and a Social Network Service (SNS), the method comprising: sending, by the client terminal, to a server a request for a contact list provided in the SNS; receiving from the server, by the client terminal, the contact list from among a plurality of contact lists received from an SNS providing server; and performing, by the client terminal, address book synchronization with the server based on the received contact list, wherein the contact list is filtered by the server so as to include only contacts valid for the client terminal, and wherein, if an address of a same messaging service as that of the client terminal is present in the received contact list, the client terminal adds at least one contact having the address of the same messaging service as that of the client terminal in a subscription list.