Intelligent Digital Interruption Management

A system for managing interrupts to an electronic device outputting a media broadcast, the system comprising:

• an interrupt manager communicatively coupled to an operating system running on the electronic device, the interrupt manager able to pass through or defer interrupt notifications that would otherwise disrupt the media broadcast on the electronic device;
• a media throughput analyzer communicatively coupled to the interrupt manager, the throughput analyzer quantifying a current, relative information depth value of the media broadcast at the time a first interrupt notification is made;
• a threshold throughput value wherein information depth below the threshold throughput value is representative of a trough in the media throughput and therefore a cognitively less disruptive portion of the media broadcast in which to pass a first interrupt notification for assimilation by an end user of the electronic device;
• an interrupt queue that defers the first interrupt notification in the event that the current, relative information depth value of the media broadcast is above the threshold throughput value;
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• an authorization function communicatively coupled to the media throughput analyzer that releases the first interrupt notification from the interrupt queue when the current, relative information depth value of the media broadcast falls below the threshold throughput value.