Patent ID: 7200591

Claim:
A method of enabling users to perform a search, the method including, in a computer system: providing a user with a search request form including information relating to a search request, the search request form having disposed therein or thereon coded data at least partially indicative of an identity of an interactive element; receiving indicating data from a sensing device, via a printer, the sensing device being responsive to the sensing device being placed in an operative position at least partially within the interactive element to sense at least some of the coded data and generate the indicating data, the indicating data being at least partially indicative of: an identifier, the identifier being stored in a store within the sensing device; at least one of: the identity; movement of the sensing device at least partially within the interactive element; and, a position of the sensing device at least partially within the interactive element; and, determining, using the indicating data, the interactive element; determining, using the determined interactive element, a search request; performing a search using the search request; communicating results of the search to the printer using the identifier, the printer being responsive to the results to print the results of the search for the user.