Patent ID: 6973450

Claim:
A method of enabling a user to request a search of stored information via a search request form, the search request form having disposed therein or thereon information relating to a search request and having disposed therein or thereon coded data indicative of an identity of the search request form and of a plurality of reference points of the search request form; the method including, in a computer system: (a) recording an association between the identity and a description of the search request form; (b) causing a printer to print the search request form by printing the information and the coded data; (c) receiving from a sensing device operated by the user, indicating data indicative of the identity of the search request form and a position of the sensing device relative to the search request form, the sensing device, when placed in an operative position relative to the search request form, generating the indicating data by sensing at least some of the coded data; and (d) identifying, from the indicating data and the description, at least one parameter relating to the search request.