Message publishing with prohibited or restricted content removal

Abstract

Publishing of a message that is free of prohibited or restricted content by a message publishing system that is provided with criteria concerning acceptable content. A message is received at the message publishing system, is processed by a processor to detect any prohibited or restricted items in the message which are outside of the criteria of the acceptable content, and the prohibited or restricted content is removed in response to the detection of the prohibited or restricted items in the message. Either the message or only a remainder of the message which is free of the prohibited or restricted content is published in accordance with the criteria provided to the message publishing system.

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         14 . A method in support of publishing a message comprising a hand-written text portion and an optical-recognition readable portion, comprising the steps of:
 (a) extracting the hand-written text portion of the message as an image of the hand-written text portion of the message;   (b) under control of the processor executing optical-recognition software, processing the optical-recognition readable portion using the optical recognition software, wherein the processing includes scanning for any date or time mentioned in the optical-recognition readable portion after which a message is unreviewable;   (c) storing the respective extracted and processed message portions in a third party storage area;   (d) automatically setting the message as unreviewable in view of information in the message itself which comprises any date or time mentioned in the optical-recognition readable portion after which the message is unreviewable, and otherwise publishing at least the extracted image portion of the message from the third-party storage area to a requestor over a network who's request is received prior to said any date or time after which the message is unreviewable.   
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 14 , wherein the message comprises more than one hand-written text portion or more than one optical-recognition readable portion. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 14 , wherein the message comprises a time/date schedule portion and wherein the step of storing in the third party storage area is dependent on said any time/date schedule. 
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 14 , wherein the step of storing the respective extracted and processed message portions in the third party storage area further includes the step of providing login credentials to the third party storage area. 
     
     
         18 . The method of  claim 14 , wherein the message on which the extracting and processing steps are performed is a fax message. 
     
     
         19 . The method of  claim 14 , wherein the step of storing the respective extracted and processed message portions in the third party storage area comprises storing an output or result of the execution of the optical-recognition software on the optical-recognition portion of the message. 
     
     
         20 . A method in support of publishing a message comprising a hand-written text portion and an optical-recognition readable portion, comprising the steps of:
 (a) extracting the hand-written text portion of the message as an image of the hand-written text portion of the message;   (b) under control of the processor executing optical-recognition software, processing the optical-recognition readable portion using the optical recognition software, wherein the processing includes scanning for any date or time mentioned in the optical-recognition readable portion indicating the date or time that the message is viewable;   (c) storing the respective extracted and processed message portions in a third party storage area in regard to any date or time mentioned in the optical-recognition readable portion after which the message is unreviewable; and   (d) using any date or time mentioned in the optical-recognition readable portion after which the message is unreviewable to control whether either stored message portion is to be published to a requestor over a network as a function as to whether a request is received from the requestor within the viewable date or time of the message.   
     
     
         21 . The method of  claim 20 , wherein the message comprises more than one hand-written text portion or more than one optical-recognition readable portion. 
     
     
         22 . The method of  claim 20 , wherein the message comprises a time/date schedule portion and wherein the step of storing in the third party storage area is dependent on said any time/date schedule. 
     
     
         23 . The method of  claim 20 , wherein the step of storing the respective extracted and processed message portions in the third party storage area further includes the step of providing login credentials to the third party storage area. 
     
     
         24 . The method of  claim 20 , wherein the message on which the extracting and processing steps are performed is a fax message. 
     
     
         25 . The method of  claim 20 , wherein the step of storing the respective extracted and processed message portions in the third party storage area comprises storing an output or result of the execution of the optical-recognition software on the optical-recognition portion of the message. 
     
     
         26 . A method in support of publishing a message comprising a hand-written text portion and an optical-recognition readable portion, comprising the steps of:
 (a) extracting the hand-written text portion of the message as an image of the hand-written text portion of the message;   (b) under control of the processor executing optical-recognition software, processing the optical-recognition readable portion using the optical recognition software, wherein the processing includes scanning for any date or time mentioned in the optical-recognition readable portion after which a message is unreviewable; and   (c) storing the respective extracted and processed message portions in a third party storage area in regard to any date or time mentioned in the optical-recognition readable portion after which the message is unreviewable; and   (d) using any date or time mentioned in the optical-recognition readable portion after which the message is unreviewable to control whether either stored message portion is to be published to a requestor over a network.   
     
     
         27 . The method of  claim 26 , wherein the message comprises more than one hand-written text portion or more than one optical-recognition readable portion. 
     
     
         28 . The method of  claim 26 , wherein the message comprises a time/date schedule portion and wherein the step of storing in the third party storage area is dependent on said any time/date schedule. 
     
     
         29 . The method of  claim 26 , wherein the step of storing the respective extracted and processed message portions in the third party storage area further includes the step of providing login credentials to the third party storage area. 
     
     
         30 . The method of  claim 26 , wherein the message on which the extracting and processing steps are performed is a fax message. 
     
     
         31 . The method of  claim 26 , wherein the step of storing the respective extracted and processed message portions in the third party storage area comprises storing an output or result of the execution of the optical-recognition software on the optical-recognition portion of the message.