Method of enabling purchasing via a printed interactive form
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorsKia Silverbrook, Paul Lapstun
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Abstract
A method of enabling a purchasing transaction via a printed interactive form is provided. The form has printed thereon graphical information relating to a purchasing transaction and a plurality of tags. Each tag contains coded data identifying the form and its own location on the form. The method comprises the steps of: (a) a computer system receiving indicating data from an optically imaging pen interacting with the form, and the computer system identifying at least one parameter relating to the purchasing transaction using the indicating data. The indicating data comprises data regarding an identity of the form and data regarding a location of the pen relative to the form. The pen generates the indicating data using sensed coded data.
Claims20
A method of enabling a purchasing transaction via a printed interactive form, said form having printed thereon graphical information relating to a purchasing transaction and a plurality of tags, each tag containing coded data identifying said form and its own location on said form, said method comprising the steps of:
- a computer system receiving indicating data from an optically imaging pen interacting with said form, said indicating data comprising data regarding an identity of said form and data regarding a location of said pen relative to said form, said pen generating said indicating data using sensed coded data, and
- said computer system identifying at least one parameter relating to said purchasing transaction using said indicating data.
A method of initiating a purchasing transaction via a printed interactive form, said method comprising the steps of:
- providing a printed form comprising graphical information relating to a purchasing transaction and a plurality of tags, each tag containing coded data identifying said form and its own location on said form;
- interacting with the form using an optically imaging pen which senses at least some of the printed coded data;
- generating indicating data in the pen using the sensed coded data, said indicating data comprising data regarding the identity of said form and data regarding a location of said pen relative to said form;
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- transmitting said indicating data to a computer system,
- thereby enabling said computer system to identify at least one parameter relating to said purchasing transaction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.