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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2005
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2001
Scott G. Hicks, Wake County, NC (US);
Scott G. Hicks, Wake County, NC (US);
Ericsson Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Abstract
A method of storing an e-mail address within an Abbreviated Dialing Number (ADN) record of a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card is provided. The ADN record typically includes a plurality of fields having personal contact information relating to a contact stored in the ADN record. The inventive method includes the steps of allocating a first number of bytes of memory space to a first field in the ADN record, storing an e-mail address of a contact in the first field in the ADN record, and setting a flag in a second field in the ADN record indicating a presence of a e-mail address in the first field in the ADN record.