Prioritising phonebook numbers in a telephone

A mobile phone configured with an electronic telephone address-book having a plurality of contacts, comprising:

• means for associating a frequency-of-use parameter with each contact for a current date and for each day indicated by a time period parameter identifying a number of days over which received calls and sent calls are to be monitored;
• means for incrementing the frequency-of-use parameter associated with a contact for the current date each time a call is received from a telephone number associated with that contact;
• means for incrementing the frequency-of-use parameter associated with a contact for the current date each time a call is sent to the telephone number associated with that contact;
• means for summing the frequency-of-use values for each contact for the current date and for the number of days indicated by the time period parameter;
• means for comparing the summed frequency-of-use values of each contact to select a number of contacts indicated by a configurable list size parameter having the highest frequency-of-use values;
• means for sorting the selected contacts in accordance with the summed frequency-of-use values;
• and
• means for populating a display with the sorted selected contacts.

A mobile phone configured with an electronic telephone address-book having a plurality of contacts, the mobile phone comprising:

• a display;
• a memory;
• a processor coupled to the memory and to the display, wherein the processor is configured with processor-executable instructions to perform operations comprising:
• associating a frequency-of-use parameter with each contact for a current date and for each day indicated by a time period parameter identifying a number of days over which received calls and sent calls are to be monitored;
• incrementing the frequency-of-use parameter associated with a contact for the current date each time a call is received from a telephone number associated with that contact;
• incrementing the frequency-of-use parameter associated with a contact for the current date each time a call is sent to the telephone number associated with that contact;
• summing the frequency-of-use values for each contact for the current date and for the number of days indicated by the time period parameter;
• comparing the summed frequency-of-use values of each contact to select a number of contacts indicated by a configurable list size parameter having the highest frequency-of-use values;
• sorting the selected contacts in accordance with the summed frequency-of-use values;
• and
• populating the display with the sorted selected contacts.

A non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored thereon processor-executable instructions configured to cause a mobile phone processor to perform operations comprising:

• associating for each contact in an electronic telephone address-book a frequency-of-use parameter with a current date and for each day indicated by a time period parameter identifying a number of days over which received calls and sent calls are to be monitored;
• incrementing the frequency-of-use parameter associated with a contact for the current date each time a call is received from a telephone number associated with that contact;
• incrementing the frequency-of-use parameter associated with a contact for the current date each time a call is sent to the telephone number associated with that contact;
• summing the frequency-of-use values for each contact for the current date and for the number of days indicated by the time period parameter;
• comparing the summed frequency-of-use values of each contact to select a number of contacts indicated by a configurable list size parameter having the highest frequency-of-use values;
• sorting the selected contacts in accordance with the summed frequency-of-use values;
• and
• populating a display with the sorted selected contacts.