Abstract: Apparatus and method for dynamically merging diverse multimedia content. A wireless mobile handset, communicating with an Image Processing System (IPS) through a cellular network servicing the handset, sends a message of diverse media with instructions either accompanying the message or identifying a space residing in an IPS database having the desired instructions. The IPS dynamically alters the diverse multimedia content in accordance with the instructions and sends the altered message to recipient(s) identified by the sending handset. The instructions may include providing the altered message at a public (or non-public) site accessed by an internet browser.

Abstract: A reading system and method. The system and method integrate a printed book and associated interactive electronic data stored on a remote database. The printed book contains indicia to identify the location of the interactive electronic data. In addition, visual cues are disposed throughout the printed book to indicate the availability of electronic data associated with printed material located in the proximity of the visual cue. A reader of the printed book employs the indicia and the visual cues to accesses the interactive electronic data.