Patent ID: 7072642

Claim:
A terminal that records references to points of communication contained in display data and communicates selectively to a point of communication referenced by a recorded reference, comprising: a receiver that receives display data which contains at least one reference to a point of communication which is not a point of communication from which the display data originated, the reference is of a type selected from at least a telephone number, an e-mail address and a uniform resource locator; a reference locator that extracts the reference contained in the received display data and stores the extracted reference in a memory; a selector that reads out the reference stored in the memory; multiple communication functionalities selectively activated according to a type of reference in order to communicate to a point of communication referenced by the reference; and a communication control that automatically reconfigures the terminal to communicate to a point of communication referenced by the read-out reference, using at least one of the multiple communication functionalities conforming to the type of the read-out reference.