Patent ID: 8750851

Claim:
A mobile terminal comprising: a display unit; a mobile terminal address book; and a controller configured to receive an update request including at least one contact entry for updating the mobile terminal address book from a remote device when the mobile terminal enters into a particular area, to automatically update the mobile terminal address book based on the at least one contact entry in the received update request, to transmit information indicating whether the at least one contact entry successfully updated to the mobile terminal address book or not to the remote device, to synchronize the updated mobile terminal address book with a network address book through a network, and to control the display unit to display one or more contact entries stored in the updated mobile terminal address book including the at least one contact entry according to context information associated with each of the one or more contact entries, wherein the at least one contact entry in the update request has been filtered by the remote device according to a preset policy based on user preferences of the mobile terminal, wherein the context information includes location information and lifetime information associated with each of the one or more contact entries, and the display unit displays the one or more contact entries having the location information that matches current location information of the mobile terminal, wherein the controller controls the display unit to display the automatically updated at least one contact entry differently than contact entries that are manually added to the mobile terminal address book, and wherein the controller automatically removes the one or more contact entries from the mobile terminal address book according to the lifetime information associated with each of the one or more contact entries.