Patent ID: 7263508
Filing Date: 2007-08-28
Classification: G06Q,G07F

Abstract:
1. A method of enabling online purchasing via a printed form containing information relating to a purchasing transaction, the form including coded data indicative of an identity of the form and of plurality of reference points of the form, said method comprising the steps of: sensing, by a sensing device, coded data from the printed form and generating by the sensing device indicating data comprising form identity data and a position of the sensing device relative to the printed form using at least some of the sensed coded data wherein based on the distance between the sensing device and the computer system the indicating data is buffered in internal sensing device memory; wirelessly transmitting the indicating data from the sensing device to the computer system in the form of encrypted digital ink; receiving, in the computer system, the transmitted indicating data from the sensing device; receiving, in the computer system, a unique sensing device identifier wherein the sensing device contains the sensing device identifier; retrieving, using the form identity data, a map of the form maintained in the computer system; identifying, using the position data on the map, at least one parameter associated with a purchasing transaction; identifying, using the sensing device identifier, a purchaser identity and, initiating, in the computer system, the purchasing transaction using the purchaser identity and the parameter.