Patent ID: 7349719

Claim:
A portable mobile phone backup device, comprising: a mobile and compact handheld enclosure; a purpose-specific communication port housed within the handheld enclosure and configured to receive an external removable mobile phone-dependent communication adapter associated with one or more types of mobile phones, the mobile phone-dependent communication adapter for communicatively coupling the portable mobile phone backup device to a mobile phone; a memory device for storing telephone numbers received by the portable mobile phone backup device; and a purpose-specific processing circuit housed within the mobile and compact handheld enclosure and coupled to the purpose-specific communication port and memory device, the purpose-specific processing circuit permanently programmed to uniquely identify the mobile phone coupled to the purpose-specific communication port by obtaining a unique mobile phone identifier from the mobile phone, retrieve phone numbers from the mobile phone over the purpose-specific communication port, store the retrieved phone numbers and mobile phone identifier in the memory device, and associate the unique mobile phone identifier with phone numbers stored in the memory device, wherein the mobile phone identifier corresponds to the mobile phone from which the phone numbers are retrieved.