Patent ID: 6987506
Filing Date: 2006-01-17
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method of enabling a user to navigate a directory using a list of directory entries printed onto a surface, the list of directory entries corresponding to at least one node of an index of the directory, the method including the steps of, in a computer system: causing a printer to print the surface by printing, substantially simultaneously: receiving indicating data from a hand-held sensing device, the indicating data being indicative of both an identity of the list of directory entries and a position of the sensing device relative to the list of directory entries, the sensing device being adapted to: (a) sense at least some of the coded data when the user touches the sensing device against the surface in the vicinity of a selected printed directory entry; and (b) generate the indicating data using at least some of the sensed coded data; identifying, using the indicating data, further directory information relating to a selected node of the index of the directory corresponding to the selected printed directory entry; and providing the further directory information to the user.