Patent ID: 8151180

Claim:
A method for providing a hyperlink on a network, the method comprising: capturing an image of at least one character fixed in a medium; determining at least one letter of an alphabet corresponding to the at least one character; determining at least one marking applied within a letter from the at least one letter; determining a numerical value based on the type of the determined at least one marking and a location for the determined at least one marking within the letter of the at least one letter; looking up in a database a hyperlink corresponding to the numerical value; and presenting the hyperlink on a display device, wherein the determining a numerical value for the determined at least one letter further comprises: determining a first numerical value based on the type of the determined at least one marking within the at least one letter; determining a second numerical value based on the location for the determined at least one marking; and determining an overall numerical value by using the first value as a base integer value and the second value as an exponential power of the base integer value.