Patent ID: 7857217

Claim:
A system for generating an association between a software object and a sticker on a surface, and retrieving said software object, the sticker having disposed therein or thereon coded data at least partially indicative of a sticker identity, the system comprising: a sensing device for sensing at least part of the coded data in order to determine the sticker identity, and generating indicating data at least partially indicative of the sticker identity; a computer system for: receiving the indicating data from the sensing device; storing object data indicative of each of a plurality of software objects in an object repository; ordering the object data stored in the object repository according to when the software object data was stored in the object repository; determining, using the order of the object data in the object repository, the software object which has been most recently stored in the object repository; generating the association based at least partially on the most recently stored software object and the sticker identity; receiving further indicating data from the sensing device, the indicating data being at least partially indicative of the sticker identity; and retrieving the software object associated with the sticker identity.