Creating responses for an electronic pen-computer multimedia interactive system

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a plurality of machine accessible instructions stored thereon, wherein when the instructions are executed by a processor, the instructions cause the processor to:

• define an object on a digital page image representing a page of printed material wherein the page of printed material is included in a book consisting of one or more pages of printed material;
• and
• link a position of the object on the digital page image to a related response to be performed by the computer system, wherein the position of the object on the digital page image corresponds to a physical position in the one or more pages of printed material which is identified by a computer system when the book has been placed in a printed material holder by a user, the printed material holder being coupled to the computer system, wherein a position of the digital page image is defined by a relative position of the book to a known physical location of the printed material holder,
• generate a database external to the second computer system, the database comprising a book content database, a multimedia database, and an action library including related response information corresponding to the position of the object;
• determine a position of an object selected by the user using the second computer system;
• and
• receive response information from the database, the response information corresponding to the object selected by the user;
• and
• perform said response on the second computer, said response comprising playing an audio file.

A system comprising:

• a pointing device to determine a position on a page of printed material wherein the page of printed material is included in a book consisting of one or more pages of printed material, wherein the book is to be placed on a printed material holder by a user, and wherein the position on the one or more pages of printed material is defined by a relative position of the book to a known physical location of the printed material holder;
• a communicating device coupled to the printed material holder to transmit the position to a computer system;
• a maker component to define an object on a digital page image representing a page of the printed material;
• and to link a position of the object on the digital page image to a related response to be performed by the computer system, wherein the related response to be performed by the computer system comprises rendering multimedia content to be provided to the user while reading the book and linked to the position of the object, wherein the multimedia content is different from the object;
• and
• a player component to correlate the pointed position to selected content associated with the printed material, the selected content being accessible by the computer system;
• and to provide a valid response to the user based at least in part on the pointed position and the correlated content, wherein the valid response includes at least one of rendering audio content, rendering video content, rendering image content, rendering text content, and performing an action by the computer system.