Patent Document ID: 9516154
Application ID: 14602688

Base Claim:
1. An apparatus for managing conversational content associated with a contact in a terminal, the apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store contact information including a name of each of contacts and a corresponding number; a management unit configured to: preserve conversational information associated with one of the contacts, which includes the corresponding number of the one contact, the one contact, a time of occurrence and a detailed content associated with each of conversational messages, and form a conversational content with the one contact to be displayed for a user based on the contact information and the conversational information; and a display unit configured to display the conversational content with the one contact formed by the management unit for the user, wherein the management unit is further configured to incorporate the conversational message associated with the corresponding number of the one contact, before the corresponding number of the one contact is deleted from or replaced in the contact information, into the conversational content associated with the one contact by processing the conversational information associated with the corresponding number of the one contact before the corresponding number is deleted from or replaced in the contact information, such that the conversational message associated with the corresponding number of the one contact is included in the conversational content when the corresponding number of the one contact is deleted or replaced.

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Claim 3:
3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the management unit is further configured to incorporate each of the conversational messages associated with all numbers of the one contact into a single conversational content associated with the one contact.