Patent ID: 8023925

Claim:
A cellular telephone comprising: a memory storing a telephone directory; a processor having access to the telephone directory stored in the memory; and a set of instructions capable of being executed by the processor for: establishing a communication link with a remote central station storing a plurality of telephone directories each assigned a unique identification code; transmitting a unique identification code to the remote central station; displaying on a display of the cellular telephone a telephone directory stored in a memory of the remote central station and assigned the transmitted unique identification code; selecting at least a portion of the displayed telephone directory; instructing the remote central station to transmit to the cellular telephone the selected portion of the telephone directory after selection of a first dedicated key of the cellular telephone; receiving the selected portion of the telephone directory, said received selected portion of the telephone directory including at least one telephone directory listing transmitted to the remote central station by the cellular telephone after selection of a second dedicated key of the cellular telephone; and storing the received telephone directory in the memory of the cellular telephone, wherein the first dedicated key and the second dedicated key are different keys.