Translation of "Electronic telephone directory" in German

A classic example is the use of the French Minitel service (originally created as an electronic telephone directory and information service) for adult-oriented "chat."

In this way, the described method can be implemented with PC support in stand-alone mode and in combination with additional applications and communications terminal devices as a switchboard apparatus 2, with optional access to an electronic telephone directory.

This can be, in particular, an evaluation of the frequency with which a particular call partner has been dialled from the electronic telephone directory.

Mobile phones of the prior art according to the GSM standard generally have at least one electronic telephone directory, and it has now become the practice almost always to use two or more telephone directories.

According to the present invention, any electronic telephone directory of a mobile phone is supplemented by, in each case, one database which is located in the nonvolatile memory of the mobile phone, each database being assigned to precisely one specific telephone directory.

In the text which follows, the embodiment of the invention is explained with the example of two selected functions of the telephone 100, namely (a) with respect to the “last number redialling” function and (b) with respect to the frequency of contacting of a call partner entered in the electronic telephone directory.

Above all, this includes the Jobs Database, the Reference number directory, the Electronic telephone directory, the Form database and the Template database with the layout of forms, the Circulars database, the Geschäftsverteilungsplan, and the Staffing process .

Telenor Media, a subsidiary of the Norwegian Telenor group, is active in the sector of printed and electronic telephone directories in Norway, Spain, Sweden, France and several non- EU-countries but not in Germany.

As electronic devices such as mobile telephones, that is to say car telephones and ‘mobiles’, cordless telephones, which communicate via a base station connected to the landline network, electronic notebooks and PCs, which contain databases, such as personal telephone directories, appointments diaries, personal address books, task lists and the like, become more and more widespread, there is the increasing problem that a user needs to manage various electronic telephone directories and/or electronic appointments diaries.

The problem described in this case in connection with electronic telephone directories with mobile and cordless telephones also concerns, by way of example, address books, appointments diaries and other databases which are provided in PCs, electronic appointments diaries and planners and the like, however.

In addition, the user may also have access to electronic telephone directories in his private and/or workplace PC.

Parallel access to the various memory areas or the various electronic telephone directories is currently not possible, which means that a user must either constantly coordinate all his available telephone directories with one another if he wants to have all telephone numbers constantly available, or he needs to search through the individual electronic telephone directories one after the other.

As electronic devices such as mobile telephones, t at is to say car telephones and ‘mobiles’, cordless telephones, which communicate via a base station connected to the landline network, electronic notebooks and PCs, which contain databases, such as personal telephone directories, appointments diaries, personal address books, task lists and the like, become more and more widespread, there is the increasing problem that a user needs to manage various electronic telephone directories and/or electronic appointments diaries.