Patent ID: 7769365

Claim:
A method for a navigable telephone book of a mobile communication device wherein telephone book entries are stored in a memory of the mobile communication device, the method comprising: retrieving a subset of the telephone book entries that is a list of conforming names; displaying on a display screen of the mobile communication device a truncated list of conforming names so that a plurality of telephone book entries of the same name are undivided on a display screen, if the retrieved list of conforming names includes the plurality of telephone book entries of the same name so that the plurality of telephone book entries with the same name would otherwise span more than one page length of the display; and displaying on the display screen a list of conforming names so that a plurality of telephone book entries of the same name are consolidated on at least one display screen, if the retrieved list of conforming names includes the plurality of telephone book entries of the same name so that the plurality of telephone book entries of the same name fills at least one page length of the display.