Electronic messaging exchange
AssigneeGlobal Tel*Link Corporation
InventorsStephen Hodge, David Woody
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Abstract
A computer-implemented system and method for secure electronic message exchange including coupling a control platform to a workstation of a plurality of workstations via a communications medium, where the control platform includes one or more apparatuses for monitoring, controlling, conversion, and billing, related to messages exchanged between a plurality of local users and a plurality of remote users. The system prevents forwarding or copying of a message sent by a local user of the plurality of local users and received by a remote user of the plurality of remote users, to another party by the control platform. The system and method also provides for authenticating the remote user with the control platform.
Claims25
A secure electronic message exchange system usable inside a secured inmate facility, the secure electronic message exchange system comprising:
- a safe terminal configured to:
- authenticate a local user,
- allow the local user to generate an instant message, and
- transmit the instant message via a data connection,
- wherein the safe terminal accesses secure system software only and restricts the local user from accessing the internet;
- and
- a control platform configured to:
- receive the instant message from the safe terminal,
- convert the instant message into a format suitable for an automated security scan and transmission of the instant message;
- perform the automated security scan of the instant message,
- authenticate a remote user, and
- based on the automated security scan, transmit the instant message to a device associated with the authenticated remote user or transmit a notification to an administrator and store the instant message in a database,
- the control platform including a central computer control platform configured to allow the local user and the remote user to communicate via electronic messages.
A secure electronic message exchange system usable inside a secured inmate facility, the system comprising:
- a control platform configured to:
- authenticate a remote user,
- receive an instant message from a remote device associated with the authenticated remote user, wherein the remote device is located outside the facility,
- convert the instant message into a format suitable for an automated security scan and transmission of the instant message,
- perform the automated security scan of the instant message, and
- based on the automated security scan, transmit the instant message to a safe terminal or to an administrator;
- the safe terminal configured to:
- receive the instant message from the control platform via a data connection,
- authenticate a local user, and
- provide the instant message to the authenticated local user,
- wherein the safe terminal accesses secure system software only and restricts the local user from accessing the internet, and
- wherein the control platform includes a central computer control platform configured to allow the local user and the remote user to communicate via electronic messages.
A computer-implemented method for transmitting messages from a secured inmate facility, the method comprising:
- authenticating a local user at a safe terminal, wherein the safe terminal accesses secure system software only and restricts the local user from accessing the internet;
- receiving user input from the local user at the safe terminal;
- generating a first instant message at the safe terminal based on the received user input;
- transmitting the first instant message from the safe terminal to a control platform via a data connection;
- converting the first instant message into a format suitable for a first automated security scan and a first transmission of the first instant message;
- performing the first automated security scan of the first instant message at the control platform;
- authenticating a remote user at the control platform;
- and
- transmitting the first instant message from the control platform to a remote device associated with the authenticated remote user or to an administrator, based on the first security scan of the first instant message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.