Patent ID: 8331905

Claim:
A communications terminal device comprising: a communication portion that performs communication; a storage portion that stores phone directory data including at least a name, a phone number, and display control information; a display portion that displays information; an editing portion that edits contents of the phone directory data, and a control portion that performs communication display inhibition control if, when the communication portion communicates with a partner of a predetermined phone number, the display control information corresponding to this phone number is set to a mode that inhibits display, so as to inhibit display of this phone number on the display portion, wherein, when the contents of the phone directory data is edited by the editing portion, if the display control information of this phone directory data is set to the mode that inhibits display, the control portion inhibits display of the phone number of this phone directory data on the display portion, wherein the communications terminal device further comprises: an output portion that outputs contents of the phone directory data to an external device adapted to receive data from the communications terminal device, wherein the phone directory data further includes output control information, wherein, if the output control information is set to a mode that inhibits output of the phone directory data, the output portion inhibits the contents of the phone directory data from being output to the external device by the output portion, and wherein the communications terminal device further comprises: a self-data storage portion in which self data including at least a name and a phone number of a user of the communications terminal device is stored, the self data being stored in a region different from a region that stores the phone directory data; a self-phone-directory-data creation portion that, in response to a request for output of the self data to the external device, creating self phone directory data by adding output control information to the self data stored in the self-data storage portion and setting this output control information to a mode that inhibits the self data from being at least one of displayed by the external device and output from the external device, and allowing the self data to be output to the external device; and a self-data output portion that outputs contents of the self phone directory data to the external device.