Patent ID: 6965298

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a) a first item and a second item physically separate from the first item, the first and second items selected from one or more mobile items operable to be carried by a user and one or more items operable to be placed at one or more respective locations, the first item including a radio frequency tag operable to produce a first answer electromagnetic wave in response to a query electromagnetic wave and the second item including a radio frequency tag operable to produce a second answer electromagnetic wave in response to the query electromagnetic wave; and b) a toy including a query circuit and an interaction circuit, the query circuit being operable to emit the query electromagnetic wave and receive the first answer electromagnetic wave from the first item and the second answer electromagnetic wave from the second item the interaction circuit being operable to i) associate a user-defined output including one or more first words with one or more of the first and second answer electromagnetic waves; ii) select the user-defined output based on receiving the associated one or more answer electromagnetic waves; iii) simultaneously select a second output including one or more second words from among a plurality of outputs based on receiving a particular one or more of the first and second answer electromagnetic waves; and iv) output, in user-perceptible manner, the selected user-defined output combined with the simultaneously selected second output to form an intelligible phrase.