Patent ID: 8862108

Claim:
A method for recommending a call origination counterpart of a mobile terminal, the method comprising: generating, at the mobile terminal, a communication pattern based on a counterpart's phone number and information related to a time and a location at which a call connection was established with a device using the counterpart's phone number; requesting, by the mobile terminal to a server, supplementary information associated with the counterpart's phone number, wherein the supplementary information distinguishes the counterpart's phone number from other phone numbers and provides additional information associated with the counterpart's phone number; storing, in a memory of the mobile terminal, the communication pattern with the supplementary information received from the server; selecting at least one recommendation phone number corresponding to a current time and a current location based on communication patterns stored in the memory; and displaying the selected at least one recommendation phone number with the supplementary information; wherein storing the supplementary information comprises: storing the counterpart's phone number and the supplementary information associated with the counterpart's phone number in a first list of contacts; and storing, in a second list of contacts, the counterpart's phone number and the supplementary information associated with the counterpart's phone number that are stored in the first list based on a number of times of call communication or a communication duration with respect to the counterpart's phone number stored in the first list.