Patent ID: 7388685

Claim:
A method for composition and transmission of an electronic mail message via an interactive document, comprising the steps of: providing a document suitable for composition of the electronic mail message, the document including a plurality of coded tags, each tag encoding data indicative of an identity of the document and a location of that tag on the document; receiving, in a computer system, indicating data from a sensing device used by a user to write a message on the document, the indicating data indicating the identity of the document and a position and/or movement of the sensing, device relative to the document during writing of the message, the sensing device, when placed in an operative position relative to the document, generating the indicating data by sensing the data encoded by at least some of the coded tags; identifying in the computer system, using at least some of the indicating data, an electronic mail message corresponding to the message written using the sensing device; and transmitting the electronic mail message to a recipient address.