Patent ID: 8423060

Claim:
A mobile phone for processing short message, comprising: a storage unit for storing a phone book which stores a plurality of contacts, each contact represented by a name and contact information; and a control unit comprising: a short message receiving module for receiving a short message, wherein the short message comprises a sender and a content which is independent from the sender; a name evaluating module for evaluating whether a sender of the received short message is a name from the phone book and whether a name in the phone book is searched from the content of the short message when a sender of the received short message is not a name from the phone book; a contact information evaluating module for evaluating whether the content of the short message includes the contact information when the sender of the received short message is a name from the phone book or when the sender of the received short message is not a name from the phone book and a name in the phone book is searched from the content of the short message; a content identifying module for evaluating whether the contact information has been recorded in the contact represented by the name in the phone book when the content of the short message includes the contact information; and a recording module for recording the contact information in the contact represented by the name in the phone book if the contact information has not been recorded in the contact represented by the name in the phone book.