Patent ID: 7777911

Claim:
A method for accessing content from a computer network via a handheld device equipped with mobile telephony and an optical image sensor, said method comprising the steps of: (a) interacting with a substrate containing a printed hyperlink and machine-readable coded data, and capturing an image of the machine-readable coded data using the optical image sensor; (b) processing, on the device, the captured image to decode the machine-readable coded data into a first identifier; (c) forming on the device, a request based on the first identifier; (d) transmitting, from the device via an associated mobile phone network, the request to a first server on the computer network, said computer network being interoperable with the mobile phone network; (e) receiving content associated with the first identifier in the device, said content included a hyperlink corresponding to the printed hyperlink; (f) displaying, on a touch-sensitive display screen, display information based on said received content, said display information including a displayed hyperlink corresponding to the printed hyperlink; (g) interacting with the displayed hyperlink via said touch-sensitive display screen; (h) retrieving hyperlinked information corresponding to said hyperlink; and (i) displaying said hyperlinked information on said screen.