Patent ID: 8417291

Claim:
A method of managing a phone book in a portable terminal, the method comprising: determining whether at least one of a message and a call is generated for a phone number registered to the phone book; storing information on the at least one of the message and the call by mapping to the phone number; and displaying the stored information together when the phone number registered to the phone book is displayed wherein the storing of the information on the at least one of the message and the call by mapping to the phone number comprises: determining whether the information on the at least one of the message and the call for the phone number is pre-stored; if it is determined that the information on the at least one of the message and the call for the phone number is pre-stored, deleting all the pre-stored information associated with the phone number; and storing the information on the at least one of the message and the call by mapping to the phone number.