Patent ID: 8069189

Claim:
A portable terminal including a function for transmitting a mail, said portable terminal comprising: display means; storage means for storing an address list including a plurality of mail addresses; inputting means for receiving key operations by a user of the portable terminal for searching and entering a destination mail address; and control means for searching the destination mail address from the address list in response to the key operations through the inputting means, and for controlling the display means to display information for preparing a mail on a display screen, the information including a mail message, a subject of the mail message, and the destination mail address, wherein the control means controls the display means so that the destination mail address is searched on the display screen, on which the mail message and the subject of the mail message are being displayed, wherein the control means searches the destination mail address having a character or a character string inputted from the inputting means when searching the destination mail address, wherein the storage means stores an address list set including a plurality of address lists and names of the address lists, and wherein the address list set includes at least one of an address book, an address list extracted from a sent mail history, an address list extracted from a received mail history, and a list of a group address for sending a single mail to a plurality of destination mail addresses.