Patent ID: 8327025

Claim:
A method for 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 storage area; (d) receiving a request from a requestor for at least the extracted image portion of the message; (e) retrieving each said requested message portion from the storage area; and (f) sending the retrieved message portion(s) to the requestor over a network for review after a confirmation that the request is received prior to said any date or time after which the message is unreviewable.