Triggering a mobile phone feature upon receipt of one or more inputs relating to phone numbers grouped according to a shared characteristic

摘要

A distinctive profile is created associating selected phone numbers having a shared characteristic and enabling a feature of a mobile telephone for operation upon receiving an input relating to one of the selected phone numbers. For instance, phone numbers of recently made, received or missed phone calls are stored (16) in a memory of a mobile telephone and associated with a distinctive alerting sound. An incoming call matching (34) one of the stored phone numbers causes the distinctive alerting sound to be sounded unless the phone number matches (26) a number prestored by the user and associated with an individual or organization known to the user. A further embodiment allows a user to establish a profile of a set of numbers having a common part and permitting the user to add phone numbers to the set without having to wholly enter the common part.