Patent ID: 7120469

Claim:
A portable communication device for communication via a connected telephone circuit, comprising: communication destination party information memory means for storing communication destination party information including communication destination party identifying information of a communication destination party, subscriber number information of the communication destination party, and country identifying information for identifying a country where the communication destination party is a subscriber of telephone service, wherein the communication destination party information memory means is divided into memory regions corresponding to different destination countries so that each different region includes communication destination party identifying information of the communication destination party and subscriber number information of communication destination party of a respective different destination country; input/output means for displaying, in response to a user's operation, a list of the communication destination party identifying information stored in the communication destination party information memory means; calling processing means for dialing a call to a communication destination party selected from the list of the communication destination party identifying information displayed by the input/output means; and using country information recognizing means for recognizing means for automatically recognizing, without a user input command, a country where the portable communication device is connected to the telephone circuit; wherein the calling processing means automatically converts, as necessary, the subscriber number information stored in the communication destination party information memory means into a subscriber number suitable for a domestic or international call based on a result of comparison between the using country information recognized by the using country information recognizing means and the country identifying information of the communication destination party selected as a call destination, and dials a resultant subscriber number.