Patent ID: 7286113

Claim:
A method for enabling registration of a user to use a computer system, the method including: providing a printed registration form, the form comprising of at least one page, the form containing information relating to user registration, each page of the form including a plurality of coded data tags, each coded data tag being indicative of an identity of the form and a position of the tag on the form; receiving, in a processing system associated with the computer system, indicating data from a sensing device, the indicating data being indicative of the identity of the form and time varying position information regarding movement of the sensing device relative to the form, the sensing device, when placed in an operative position relative to the form, generating the indicating data indicative of the identity of the form and the time varying position information using at least some of the coded data tags sensed from the form; and identifying, in the processing system and from the identity of the form and the time varying position information indicated by the indicating data, at least one parameter relating to user registration, and storing the at least one parameter so as to be accessible by said computer system.