Patent ID: 7215436

Claim:
A method of generating, using an output device, a multimedia paper document for a multimedia document storing multimedia information, the method comprising: receiving, at the output device, a first signal comprising a printable representation of multimedia information stored by the multimedia document to generate a multimedia paper document for the multimedia document; generating, according to the printable representation included in the first signal, the multimedia paper document for the multimedia document using the output device; storing the multimedia document corresponding to the printable representation included in the first signal on the output device; receiving, at the output device, a second signal from a user device requesting a first portion of the multimedia document, the second signal comprising information indicating selection of a first user-selectable identifier from one or more user-selectable identifiers printed on the multimedia paper document; and responsive to the second signal, communicating the first portion of the multimedia document stored by the output device from the output device to the user device; wherein communicating the first portion of multimedia document comprises: identifying a portion of the multimedia document stored by the output device corresponding to the first user-selectable identifier, and communicating the portion of the multimedia document corresponding to the first user-selectable identifier from the output device to the user device.