Patent ID: 8352629

Claim:
A transmission delay system for removing undesired content from an input media stream, prior to transmission of a time-delay version of said input media stream, the system comprising: a delay transmission buffer memory that is structured and arranged to receive and to temporarily store a temporal quantity of said input media stream data in a buffer or a plurality of buffers; an interrupt/delay device that is structured and arranged to receive the input media stream, which has at least one of desired content and undesired content, the interrupt/delay device having: a discriminator that is adapted to monitor one or more of the input media stream and the quantity of said input media stream stored in the buffer or the plurality of buffers to identify undesired content contained therein, an excise indicator that is adapted to designate an indicated region of undesired content stored in the buffer or plurality of buffers, and an excise device that, in an excision event, excises or copies (1) the identified undesired content from the indicated region in said buffer or said plurality of buffers, (2) a first predetermined temporal quantity of said input media stream data immediately preceding the indicated region of undesired content, and (3) a second predetermined temporal quantity of said input media stream data immediately following the indicated region of undesired content; memory for archiving said identified undesired content, said first predetermined temporal quantity of said input media stream data, and said second predetermined temporal quantity of said input media stream data; a message alert device that is structured and arranged to prepare and transmit, following an occurrence of the excision event, a message alert about the archived undesired content to a message alert recipient, wherein the message alert device is adapted to attach a data file or digital recording containing the identified undesired content to the message alert; a media output device that is structured and arranged to transmit an output media stream that contains all or less than all of the input media stream stored in the buffer or the plurality of buffers according to a temporal, first-in first-out sequence; and memory for archiving all or less than all of the output media stream for subsequent comparison with at least the archived first and second predetermined temporal quantities of said input media stream data immediately preceding and immediately following the indicated region of undesired content, respectively, thereby facilitating authentication of the undesired content with the output media stream.