Cobblestone Software, Inc. is a company based in the Route 128 area outside of Boston, Massachusetts. The company was founded by Dr. Thomas Antognini and Professor Walter Antognini, the creators of the PaperDisk technology, in March of 1995. Cobblestone's mission is to enable, and popularize, hardcopy data storage, and to enable creative uses of bar code technology in hyperlinking the world of paper and the physical world. We believe that nearly every printed piece of paper has a digital story to tell, and we are dedicated to forging the link between paper and the digital world.

Cobblestone has already been granted three basic US patents, 6,098,882, 6,176,427, and 6,820,807, and has a number of others still in progress. One of these patents, 6,820,807, clearly covers the basic concept of using bar codes as physical world hyperlinks -- a breadth that is unsurprising given our own priority as the pioneering company in this space.

For background on the PaperDisk technology see:
Paper presented at US Postal Service Technology Conference in 1996
This paper includes discussion describing a new paradigm of user interface, in which 2D bar codes serve as hyperlinks from the physical world to the digital world. It is, to the best of our knowledge, the first such public description of this revolutionary paradigm.

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