Patent ID: 7806342

Claim:
A system for composition and transmission of an e-mail message to a recipient address via a computer system, said system comprising: (A) a computer system configured for: receiving an instruction to print an e-mail form; allocating a unique form identity to said e-mail form in response to receiving said instruction such that every e-mail form printed has a unique form identity allocated thereto, said form identity being arbitrarily allocated from a plurality of predetermined identities; associating said form identity with a description of said e-mail form; and sending print data, including said form identity, to a printer connected to said computer system (B) a printer configured for: rendering a tag layer and a CMYK layer in parallel using the print data received from the computer system, said tag layer comprising coded data identifying said form identity and a plurality of locations; printing the tag layer and the CMYK layer simultaneously onto a substrate to generate the printed e-mail form, the printed e-mail form comprising: graphic e-mailing information and the coded data; and (C) an optically imaging pen configured for writing on the form, sensing the coded data, generating interaction data using the sensed coded data, and sending the interaction data to the computer system such that said computer system can interpret the interaction data and identify the e-mail message, with reference to said description of said e-mail form, wherein the interaction data comprises data regarding the identity of the form and a plurality of pen locations relative to the form.