Patent ID: 6813039
Filing Date: 2004-11-02
Classification: B41J,B42C,B42P,B65H,G06F,G06K,G06Q,H04N,Y10T

Abstract:
A method of interfacing with an Internet web pagevia a netpage document including printed information relating to the Internet web page, and at least one hyperlink representing an associated object for user response in relation to the web page, the method comprising the steps of: storing a position record and URL, where the position record is associated with a two-dimensional location of the hyperlink on the Internet web page; and effecting said response upon receipt of response data from a sensing device with which a user clicks on the hyperlink on the printed netpage document, the sensing device being adapted to transmit the response data to a computer system linked to the Internet; wherein the stored position record is used to identify the URL associated with the hyperlink by comparing the two-dimensional location associated with the hyperlink on the Internet web page with a two-dimensional location associated with the hyperlink on the netpage document; and wherein the document includes coded data, which is substantially invisible in the visible spectrum, indicative of an identity of the document or of the Internet resource and of its own position relative to the document, and wherein the method includes receiving, in the computer system, indicating data from the sensing device regarding the identity of the document or the Internet resource and a position of the sensing device relative to the document in order to identify the document and/or the Internet resource and determine when the sensing device is used to interact with the element.