Patent ID: 7246355

Claim:
An integrated circuit portable device comprising a memory and at least one application program residing within said memory, characterized in that: the at least one application program comprises at least one configurable variable and a list of at least one reference element that references the at least one configurable variable, and the memory includes at least one initializing means for initializing said at least one configurable variable, upon receipt, by the at least one application program, of a command that comprises at least one indexing data that indexes said at least one reference element in the list, and at least one associated configuring value to be assigned to the at least one configurable variable which is referenced by the at least one reference element as indexed by the said indexing data in the command, the at least one initializing means initiates linking between the at least one associated configuring value and the at least one reference element, wherein the initializing means, after the link has been established, transfers the at least one associated configuring value to the at least one configurable variable using the at least one reference element, and wherein the at least one configuring variable is used to configure the at least one application program.