[kenjackson]

So I took a look at Method and System for Managing Changes to a Contact Database. It's a pretty straightforward patent. The gist of that you can store the call information from a previous call into your contact list. From a given call you can say, "This is a new contact" or "This is an updated contact".

It was filed in 2002.

The key to prior art here is to show prior to 2002 some device that that could either create a new contact or update a contact from the call log.

I almost certainly recall the ability to create new contacts from the call log prior to 2002. I think the tricky part is that I don't I'd seen updating of an existing contact.

To me this seems like an easy patent to get around though. Simply remove the ability to update contacts from the call log.