Patent ID: 7409466

Claim:
An apparatus for managing an address book in a portable wireless terminal, the apparatus comprising: a radio frequency identification (REID) recognition section for receiving information transmitted from an RFID chip after transmission of an electric wave, storing received information and reading identifiers and data corresponding to the identifiers from received information; a data conversion section for converting the data corresponding to the identifiers into data suitable for the address book; a display section for displaying data for management of the address book; a user command input section for inputting a command for address book management by a user; an address book storage section for storing the converted data; and a control section for controlling an operation of the REID recognition section, so as to transmit the converted data to the address book storage section thereby storing the converted data in a field of the address book storage which corresponds to the identifiers, wherein the RFID recognition section comprises an electric wave control section for controlling an electric wave transmission section to transmit the electric wave having a frequency and an intensity corresponding to the RFID chip.