Patent ID: 8805332

Claim:
A method for storing subscriber information in a mobile terminal, the method comprising: determining whether a message includes subscriber information by analyzing characters in a message body of the message in response to receiving the message; determining whether the subscriber information corresponds with registered subscriber information on the mobile terminal in response to the message including the subscriber information, wherein determining whether the subscriber information corresponds with registered subscriber information on the mobile terminal comprises determining whether the subscriber information in the message is registered with a contacts list for the mobile terminal; and updating the registered subscriber information to different subscriber information from the message in response to the registered subscriber information being present, wherein updating the subscriber information comprises: generating and displaying a pop-up message including a request whether the registered subscriber information should be updated in response to the subscriber information included in the message being registered subscriber information; and updating the registered subscriber information to the different subscriber information included in the message in response to receiving a request to update the registered subscriber information.