Patent ID: 7162275

Claim:
A method for displaying dial history information comprising a plurality of received/dialed entries including either a received/dialed telephone classification icon, a personal name, and telephone number classification icons corresponding to the personal name, or a received/dialed telephone classification icon and a telephone number, the method comprising the steps of: sequentially searching for the dial history information from a memory comprising phone book information and dial history book information; determining whether different telephone numbers corresponding to a personal name searched from the dial history information are registered in the phone book information; linking all registered telephone number classification icons corresponding to the personal name to the dial history information; displaying a personal name and its respective received/dialed telephone classification icon along with all its corresponding telephone number classification icons registered in the phone book information; and displaying a telephone number and its respective received/dialed telephone classification icon when the telephone number is not registered in the phone book information, thereby allowing a user to select one of the telephone numbers corresponding to each received/dialed entry.