Patent ID: 7415668

Claim:
A method enabling a plurality of participants to collaboratively markup a form, the method comprising the steps of: providing each of the participants with a document markup form showing the form, each of the document markup forms having coded data indicative of an identity of the document markup form and at least one reference point on the document markup form; providing each of the participants with a sensing device for transmitting indicating data to a computer system, the indicating data being generated by the sensing device to identify the document markup form and a least one of the position and the movement of the sensing device relative to the document markup form such that the computer system captures markups that any of the participants make to the document markup form; wherein, the computer system is configured to create a description of a further document markup form having coded data indicative of the identity of the further document markup form and at least one reference point on the further document markup form, and visual content of the document markup form, the visual content having at least some of the markups, the description created by the computer system defining a relationship between the visual content and the coded data using the at least one reference point, the computer system further configured to provide any of the participants with the further document markup form upon request, the further document markup form showing at least some of the markups, the further document markup form also having coded data indicative of an identity of the further document markup form and at least one reference point on the further document markup form such that further markups on the further document markup form are also captured in the computer system using the indicating data and the relationship between the visual content and the associated coded data.