Patent ID: 7743347

Claim:
A computer-implement method of accessing multimedia information stored in a multimedia document using a paper document, the method comprising: receiving by a computer at least one identifier representative of at least one bar code scanned by a user from among a plurality of bar codes printed on the paper document, each bar code corresponding to a point in time in the multimedia document; determining by the computer one or more time ranges based upon the at least one identifier, each time range having a start time and an end time; and determining by the computer one or more portions of multimedia information corresponding to the one or more time ranges, wherein each portion of multimedia information comprises information from the multimedia document occurring between the start time and end time associated with the corresponding time range; and outputting by the computer for play on the computer or a remote computer the portions of multimedia information corresponding to the one or more time ranges, wherein the step of determining one or more time ranges comprises: subtracting a first time amount from a time value associated with the at least one identifier to produce a first time; and adding a second time amount to the time value associated with the at least one identifier to produce a second time, wherein the one or more time ranges comprises the first time and the second time.