Patent ID: 7044381

Claim:
A method of requesting further information regarding goods or services advertised in a printed advertisement, said method comprising the steps of: providing a printed interactive sheet, said interactive sheet comprising visible user information from a publisher, at least one advertisement from an advertiser and invisible coded data indicative of an identity of the sheet and of a plurality of mapped locations on the sheet, wherein the visible user information and the invisible coded data are printed substantially simultaneously and wherein at the time of printing a computer system associates the type and spatial extent of the coded data with the spatial extent of at least some of the visible user information; interacting with the at least one advertisement using a sensing device; receiving, in a computer system, indicating data from the sensing device regarding the identity of the sheet and the position of the sensing device relative to the sheet, the sensing device, when placed in an operative position relative to the at least one advertisement, generating the indicating data using at least some of the coded data; and identifying, using the indicating data, the requested further information and a payment from the advertiser to the publisher.