Systems and methods for providing a visual content gallery within a controlled environment
AssigneeGlobal Tel*Link Corporation
InventorAlex Petty
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Abstract
Methods and systems for providing a visual content gallery within a controlled environment are disclosed herein. A content gallery server receives a content submission from an inmate device within the controlled environment. Further, the content gallery server determines that the content submission does not include prohibited content based on comparing the content submission to a blacklist of prohibited information. When the content submission does not include prohibited content, the content gallery server adds the content submission to a network accessible content gallery corresponding to an inmate associated with the inmate device. Further, authorized friends and family of the inmate may view the content submission and provide comments on the content submission.
Claims20
A method for managing a social content gallery in a controlled environment, comprising:
- receiving content and a content tag from an inmate device, the content tag designating a recipient category, the recipient category identifying a group of individuals permitted to receive and view the content;
- determining an inmate associated with the inmate device;
- determining restricted submission information applicable to the content;
- determining that the content does not include the restricted submission information;
- receiving a request for the content from a consumer device associated with a user;
- identifying a social relation of the user to the inmate;
- determining that the user is within the recipient category based on the identified social relation;
- determining a filter associated with the content, the filter being dependent on the identified social relation and configured to modify a visual element within content;
- applying the filter to the visual element within the content to create filtered content;
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- sending the filtered content to the consumer device.
A method for managing a social content gallery in a controlled environment, comprising:
- receiving content and a content tag from a user device located outside of the controlled environment, the content tag designating an inmate of the controlled environment permitted to view the content;
- determining that an authorized face is included in the content;
- determining that the content does not include restricted submission information applicable to the content;
- receiving a request for the content from an inmate device associated with an inmate;
- determining that the inmate is permitted to receive content from a user of the user device based at least on a social relation of the inmate to the user;
- determining that the inmate is authorized to access the content;
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- sending the content to the inmate device.
A system for distributing content created by an inmate located within a controlled environment, the content being received via a secure private network from an inmate device associated with the inmate, the system comprising:
- a network accessible content gallery associated with the inmate;
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- one or more processors and/or circuits configured to:
- receive the content and a content tag from the inmate device, the content tag designating a recipient category that identifies a group of individuals permitted to receive and view the content;
- determine restricted submission information applicable to the content;
- determine that the content does not include the restricted submission information;
- determine that a face associated with the inmate is included in the content based on performing facial recognition analysis on the content;
- add the content to the network accessible content gallery based upon the face associated with the inmate being included in the content;
- receive a request for the content from a consumer device associated with a user;
- identify a social relation of the user to the inmate;
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- determine that the user is within the recipient category based on the identified social relation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.