Patent ID: 8221234

Claim:
A portable terminal device having a display unit and capable of downloading an application, the portable terminal device comprising: a key which is operable during execution of the application; processing means for processing the application to download the application along with an application name as a downloaded application, to execute the downloaded application, to judge in response to an operation of the key whether the executed downloaded application, is previously executed, to acquire a picture screen of the executed downloaded application only when the executed downloaded application is initially executed, and otherwise, to continue execution of the downloaded application, and to carry out a registering operation of the acquired picture screen on the display unit; and registering means for registering, along with the application name, the acquired picture screen of the executed downloaded application, wherein the processing means carries out processing to display, on the display unit, a function menu which includes indications of an information display function and a picture screen display function concerned with the acquired picture screen, wherein the processing means makes an access to the registering means to display the acquired picture screen on the display unit when the indication of the picture screen display function is selected, and wherein the processing means makes the execution of the downloaded application restart after the registration of the acquired picture screen.