Patent ID: 7467185

Claim:
A method of enabling remote conferencing between conference participants, the method including the steps of: providing a participant with at least one first conferencing form containing information relating to a remote conferencing session and including coded data indicative of an identity of the first conferencing form and of at least one reference point of the first conferencing form; associating the identity of the first conferencing form with a form description; receiving, in a computer system, indicating data from a sensing device operated by said conference participant involved in the conference session, said indicating data regarding the identity of the first conferencing form and at least one of a position and a movement of the sensing device relative to the first conferencing form, the sensing device, when placed in an operative position relative to the first conferencing form, sensing at least some of the coded data and generating the indicating data using at least some of the sensed coded data; identifying in the computer system and from the indicating data, at least one parameter relating to the conferencing session; associating an identity of a second conferencing form with said form description by determining whether an identity of any other second conferencing form is associated with said form description so as to produce a hierarchical tree of conferencing form versions; and providing at least one other conference participant remote from said conference participant with at least one second conferencing form containing on a first surface of thereof information representative of the at least one parameter and coded data indicative of the identity of the second conferencing form and of at least one reference point of the second conferencing form and on a second surface thereof information regarding the hierarchial tree of conferencing form versions wherein the sensing device is further adapted to store a sensing device identifier which is adapted to distinguish the sensing device from other sensing devices of the same type.