Patent ID: 7127237

Claim:
A communication terminal adapted to be connected to a network which provides a service function for notifying of a message that contains a caller phone number and a caller name, the communication terminal comprising: a phone book for storing user identification information containing a user phone number and a user name to be associated with the user phone number for each communication party user; message receiving means for receiving the caller phone number and the caller name in the message included in an incoming call signal from the network; display mode selling means for setting either a first display mode for displaying only the received message received by said message receiving means or a second display mode for displaying only the user identification information stored in the phone book; determining means for determining whether the first display mode or second display mode is set by said display mode setting means; comparing means for comparing the received caller phone number with each stored user phone number stored in the phone book; and display means for displaying the received caller name and the stored user name corresponding to a stored user phone number that coincides with the received caller phone number according to the determination result of the determining means, wherein said display means displays only the message received by said message receiving means when the first display mode is set or when the received caller phone number does not coincide with one of the user phone numbers stored in the phone book, and displays only the stored user identification information including one of the stored phone numbers when the received caller phone number coincides with one of the user phone numbers stored in the phone book.