Patent ID: 7832626

Claim:
A method of providing anonymous entry to a competition via a printed competition entry form that includes machine-readable coded data, the coded data including a plurality of tags each encoding data on an identity of the printed form and the location of that tag on the printed form, the method including the steps, performed in a computer system, of: receiving, at the computer system, interaction data representing interaction of a pen sensing device with the tags of the coded data; identifying, at the computer system, a digital description associated with the printed form from the form identity represented in the received interaction data and capturing a competition entry by determining locations in the digital description associated with the locations of the interacted tags represented in the received interaction data; assigning, at the computer system, a competition alias identifier (ID) to the captured competition entry; and transmitting, from the computer system, the competition entry to a competition administrator with the competition alias ID, thereby enabling the anonymous entry to the competition.