Cellular telephone

Abstract

A business card and an associated intelligent device are provided. In one embodiment, the business card is a conventional business card bearing information about the owner of the card and further included a machine readable indicia, such as a barcode. The indicia is encoded to represent the information born on the card. The intelligent device, which is typically a cellular telephone, includes a reader that is operable to receive the indicia, and a processor that is operable to decode the indicia into an electronic data representative of the information. Typically, the electronic data is divided into a plurality of fields, and is stored in a telephone or address directory within the device. The cell phone or other intelligent device is operable to dial a telephone number contained in the indicia.

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