Patent ID: 7974612
Filing Date: 2011-07-05
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for transmitting a phone number stored in a first mobile communication terminal to a second mobile communication terminal, the method comprising: providing a message window for receiving a composed message to be transmitted to the second mobile communication terminal; receiving a search query for searching a specific phone number to be transmitted, the search query comprising a search string; searching for at least one phone number stored in a database in the first mobile communication terminal in response to the search query; displaying the searched at least one phone number; selecting the specific phone number from the searched at least one phone number by way of interacting with a user interface of the first mobile communication terminal, the selected specific phone number being a phone number of a specific third party that is not the first or second mobile communication terminal; displaying the selected specific phone number corresponding to the third party in a sender information section included in the message window by way of interacting with the user interface of the first mobile communication terminal such that the selected specific phone number represents sender information of the message; and transmitting the message to the second mobile communication terminal, wherein default sender information of the first mobile communication terminal is replaced by the selected specific phone number in the sender information section of the transmitted message such that the second mobile communication terminal retrieves the phone number directly from the sender information section in the message upon receiving the message from the first mobile communication terminal.