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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1996
Timothy Joseph Rahrer, Ottawa, CA;
Robert Scott McClennon, Ottawa, CA;
David Robert Cuddy, Ottawa, CA;
Northern Telecom Limited, Montreal, CA;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for maintaining records in a telephone directory involves maintaining a personal directory of at least one record associated with at least one party with which a telephone call is conducted. The record has a field for identifying the party and a frequency of use field for storing a number representing the number of times a call is conducted with the party. In response to a call conducted with a party, the personal directory is searched for a record associated with the party and upon finding such a record, the contents of the frequency of use field of the record are incremented and the records of the personal directory are sorted in an order dependent upon the contents of the frequency of use fields.