Patent ID: 7925690

Claim:
A mobile phone method of managing an electronic telephone address-book having a plurality of contacts, comprising: associating a frequency-of-use parameter with each contact for a current date and for each day indicated by a time period parameter identifying a number of days over which received calls and sent calls are to be monitored; incrementing the frequency-of-use parameter associated with a contact for the current date each time a call is received from a telephone number associated with that contact; incrementing the frequency-of-use parameter associated with a contact for the current date each time a call is sent to the telephone number associated with that contact; summing the frequency-of-use values for each contact for the current date and for the number of days indicated by the time period parameter; comparing the summed frequency-of-use values of each contact to select a number of contacts indicated by a configurable list size parameter having the highest frequency-of-use values; sorting the selected contacts in accordance with the summed frequency-of-use values; and populating a display with the sorted selected contacts.