Patent ID: 8688171

Claim:
A method for operating telephone directories applied in a mobile terminal using a smart subscriber identity module (SIM) card, the method comprising: after the mobile terminal is powered on, reading a telephone directory in the mobile terminal and a telephone directory in the smart SIM card, wherein the smart SIM card is a SIM card supporting a Smartcard Web Server function, and constructing a first table corresponding to the telephone directory in the mobile terminal and a second table corresponding to the telephone directory in the smart SIM card; and when the mobile terminal detects that the first table and the second table have been constructed, accomplishing a subscriber's operation on telephone directories in the first table and/or the second table, and after the first table is modified, using the modified first table to update the telephone directory in the mobile terminal, and after the second table is modified, using the modified second table to update the telephone directory in the smart SIM card.