Patent ID: 7251316

Claim:
A communication system, comprising: a posting device that has a corresponding unique identifier; and a communications terminal that receives the unique identifier from the posting device; wherein the posting device includes a fixation portion configured to physically couple the posting device with a physical object; and wherein the communications terminal includes a storing section that stores association information associating the unique identifier with the physical object, and with a plurality of user addresses relating to the physical object; a receive subsystem that receives the unique identifier from the posting device when a user accesses the posting device; a control section that identifies the physical object and the user addresses in reference to the received unique identifier and the association information stored in the storing section, and prompts the user to enter a conversational element, the conversational element relating to the physical object and to be provided to the user addresses; a capture subsystem that captures the conversational element to be entered by the user; and a communications subsystem that provides the conversational element captured by the capture subsystem to the plurality of user addresses relating to the physical object.