Patent ID: 7864360

Claim:
A method of capturing an object and linking the object to a print medium, the method including: capturing the object via a digital camera, a video camera or an audio recorder; storing the object in a virtual clipboard; designating an attach button on the print medium using an optically imaging sensing device, the print medium being provided with a two-dimensional coded data pattern, the coded data pattern identifying the print media identifier and a two-dimensional coordinate grid; subsequently designating, using the sensing device, a zone of the print medium for association of the object; reading, using the sensing device, the print media identifier and a coordinate location from the coded data pattern; submitting a request from the sensing device to associate the object with the zone of the print medium, said request identifying the object, the print media identifier and the coordinate location; wherein, the association of the object, the print media identifier and the coordinate location is recorded in a database, the object being retrievable from the database using the print media identifier.