US 12,120,160 B1Granted

Systems and methods for secure, controlled virtual visitation with confinement institution inmates

AssigneeConfinement Telephony Technology, LLC

InventorsRick Allen Lubbehusen, John Vincent Townsend, III, Edward Eugene Williams, Sr., Eugene Bernard Joswick, III

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Abstract

Secure, controlled, interactive virtual visitation for confinement institution inmates is provided using computing devices connected through a network by managing the scheduling of visitation sessions and use of shared visitation session resources, ensuring the identities of the inmate and the person with whom the inmate is to interact in the virtual visitation session, and by monitoring the interactions and communications during the virtual visitation sessions to detect prohibited activities. Another embodiment of the invention uses a virtual desktop shared from a remote server to ensure that an inmate does not have access to prohibited applications or content during a virtual visitation session.

Claims9

Dependent claims

A method of providing a virtual visitation session involving an inmate of a controlled-access residential institution and a non-inmate on separate devices, the method comprising:

sharing audio and video between the inmate and the non-inmate in the virtual visitation session;
monitoring the virtual visitation session for prohibited activities;
and
based on detecting at least one of the prohibited activities,
generating a flag identifying a starting time of a time segment during which the at least one of the prohibited activities occurred during the virtual visitation session;
and
notifying an authority of the at least one of the prohibited activities having occurred during the virtual visitation session;
and
providing direct access to the authority to a portion of a recording of the virtual visitation session based on the flag.

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Facts

Application: 18/134,200Filed 13 Apr 2023 · division
Priority: 2 Sep 2015
Granted: 15 Oct 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

H04L 65/4038
Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences: with floor control
H04L 43/10
Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks: active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
H04L 65/1069
Session management: session establishment or de-establishment
H04L 65/1083
Session management: in-session procedures

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Application62/213,459Us provisional application · filed 2 Sep 2015
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Application16/383,743Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 15 Apr 2019
Application17/523,392Parent of this division · filed 10 Nov 2021
US 11,201,899 B1Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 14 Dec 2021
US 11,757,958 B1Parent of this division
Application17/523,392Parent of this continuation-in-part
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