Patent ID: 7387234

Claim:
An electronic business card processing device having a display and a pointing device, comprising means for: storing information relating to business cards; displaying a business card on the display on the basis of the stored information; determining when a cursor is positioned within a frame of the displayed business card; displaying a tool box on the displayed business card in response to the cursor being positioned within the frame of the displayed business card, where the tool box has a plurality of buttons; receiving signals from the pointing device that has selected one of the buttons; executing processing corresponding to the selected button by using information unique to the displayed business card; wherein the executing means starts an application program associated with the selected button, wherein each button is associated with a different function, and supplies information unique to the displayed business card to the started application program; wherein one of the buttons within the tool box is an update command that is executable when information within the displayed business card is different from information that is stored for the displayed business card; and wherein the application program has a function of an address book.