MESSAGE PUBLISHING WITH PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED CONTENT REMOVAL

• US 20130091232A1
• Filed: 11/13/2012
• Published: 04/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: EasyWeb Innovations, LLC
• Original Assignee: EasyWeb Innovations, LLC
• Inventors: Codignotto, John D.
• Application Number:
  US13/675,636
• Publication Number:
  US 20130091232A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/116 Details of conversion of file system types or formats
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2206/1512 Print-to a presentation device other than a printer, e.g. e-reader, e-paper, tablet
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1276 within a printer driver, e.g. driver resides either on a server or on a client
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/22 by selection of a specific region containing or referencing a pattern; Locating or processing of specific regions to guide the detection or recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/416 Extracting the logical structure, e.g. chapters, sections or page numbers; Identifying elements of the document, e.g. authors
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00222 details of image data generation or reproduction, e.g. scan-to-email or network printing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32374 Storage subsequent to an attempted transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32475 Changing the format of the data, e.g. parallel to serial or vice versa
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/32771 in response to a request, e.g. for a particular document
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4433 : to an apparatus, part of an apparatus or an apparatus function

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.

Claims

1. A method for publishing a message portion that is free of a prohibited or restricted content, comprising the steps of:

(a) providing criteria to the message publishing system concerning acceptable content;

(b) receiving a message for publication at a message publishing system;

(c) processing the message with a processor at the message publishing system to detect any prohibited or restricted items in the message which are outside of the criteria of the acceptable content;

(d) responding to the detection of the prohibited or restricted items in the message by using the processor to remove the prohibited or restricted content; and

(e) selectively publishing (a) the message or (b) only a remainder of the message which is free of the prohibited or restricted content, in accordance with the criteria provided to the message publishing system.

2. The method as in claim 1, wherein the responding step is done automatically in response to the action of the processor detecting the prohibited or restricted items in the message.

3. The method as in claim 1, wherein the processing step comprises executing optical-recognition software to detect the prohibited or restricted items in the message.

4. The method as in claim 1, wherein the processing step comprises image-processing to detect the prohibited or restricted items in the message.

5. The method as in claim 1, wherein the processing step comprises pattern recognition to detect the prohibited or restricted items in the message.

6. The method as in claim 1, wherein the processing step comprises speech recognition to detect the prohibited or restricted items in the message.

7. The method as in claim 1, wherein the criteria provided to the message publishing system concerning acceptable content is dependent on a user of the message publishing system.

8. The method as in claim 7, further comprising:

receiving a request from the user for the message,

retrieving the message from a storage area; and

publishing either the message or only the remainder of the message to the user over a network in accordance with the criteria provided to the message publishing system.

9. The method as in claim 7, wherein the responding step is done automatically in response to the action of the processor detecting the prohibited or restricted items in the message.

10. The method as in claim 7, wherein the processing step comprises executing optical recognition software to detect the prohibited or restricted items in the message.

11. The method as in claim 7, wherein the processing step comprises image-processing to detect the prohibited or restricted items in the message.

12. The method as in claim 7, wherein the processing step comprises pattern recognition to detect the prohibited or restricted items in the message.

13. The method as in claim 7, wherein the processing step comprises speech recognition to detect the prohibited or restricted items in the message.