Patent ID: 7702321

Claim:
An apparatus for mapping abbreviated numbers in a mobile communication terminal, comprising: a memory for storing a mapping table in which numerals are mapped on respective characters, information of opposite parties, and abbreviated numbers generated and mapped on the information of the opposite parties by extracting the numerals from the mapping table in correspondence to initial characters of respective preset units that constitute names of the opposite parties in the information of the opposite parties; and a control unit for operating to extract the initial characters from the respective preset units that constitute the name of the opposite party, and mapping the abbreviated number on the information of the opposite party by mapping the extracted characters on the numerals in the mapping table if the information of the opposite party is inputs, wherein if the abbreviated number mapped on the information of the opposite party has already been in use and the abbreviated number has been selected by a user, the control unit maps and stores a previous number or a next number of the abbreviated number that has been in use as the abbreviated number of the information of the opposite party.