US00834.0260B1
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`(12) United States Patent
`Rae et al.
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`(10) Patent No.:
`(45) Date of Patent:
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`US 8,340,260 B1
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`INMATE MANAGEMENT AND CALL
`PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS
`
`Inventors: Robert L. Rae, Plano, TX (US); Stuart
`Rosenfield, Plano, TX (US)
`Assignee: Securus Technologies, Inc., Dallas, TX
`(US)
`Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this
`patent is extended or adjusted under 35
`U.S.C. 154(b) by 700 days.
`This patent is subject to a terminal dis
`claimer.
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`Notice:
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`Appl. No.: 12/410,378
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`Filed:
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`Mar. 24, 2009
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`Related U.S. Application Data
`Continuation of application No. 1 1/777,168, filed on
`Jul. 12, 2007, now Pat. No. 7,529,357, which is a
`continuation-in-part of application No. 10/642,532,
`filed on Aug. 15, 2003, now Pat. No. 7,899,167.
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`Primary Examiner – Melanie Jagannathan
`Assistant Examiner – Wutchung Chu
`(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm – Fenwick & West LLP
`(57)
`ABSTRACT
`Disclosed are systems and methods that provide centralized
`or nodal inmate management and telephone call processing
`capabilities to controlled environment facilities. An inmate
`management and call processing system serves a plurality of
`facilities and includes an inmate information database. The
`database is shared across the facilities and contains inmate
`records that may be accessed and modified by each facility as
`the inmate is transferred among those facilities. Each inmate
`record may include, among other information, contact infor
`mation of third parties whom may be notified of the inmate’s
`arrest and/or subsequent transfers of the inmate to different
`facilities. The inmate management and telephone call pro
`cessing system may use third party contact information to
`establish accounts used to charge calls or transactions made
`by an inmate while residing at the facility. Some systems may
`also provide call processing, video conferencing, e-mail,
`voicemail, and/or videomail applications, and the like to the
`facilities.
`
`20 Claims, 3 Drawing Sheets
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`TELEPHONE TERMINAL off HOCK
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`TS-301
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`CALL PROCESSING 3ATEWAY
`ESTABLISHES LINK BETWEEN
`TELFPHONE TERMINAL AND
`CA.L PROCESSING PLATFQRM;
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`"S-392
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`CALL APPLICATIGN MANAG3M8:Mt.
`SYSTEM INTERACTS WITH CALLER
`AND COLLECTS DATA
`
`CALL APPLICATION MANAGEMENT
`SYSTEM INTERACTS WITH
`VALIOATHON $Y$TEM TO
`DETERMINE CALL TREATMENT
`
`ÇALL
`AUTHORIZED?
`
`CALL APPLICATION MANAGEMENT
`§Y&TEM CONNECTS CA; i.
`
`ÇAl L.APPLICATION MANAGEMENT
`SYSTEM INTERACTS WTHOTHER
`SYSTEMs
`
`303
`
`CALL
`TERMINATED?
`
`CALL APPLICATION:
`MANAGEMENT
`§YSTEM DOES NOT
`
`
`
`CAL. ApplicãrioM MANAGEMENT
`SYSTEM RæLEASE3 CALL
`
`340
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`INMATE MANAGEMENT AND CALL
`PROCESSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS
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`CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED
`APPLICATIONS
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`an individual may be first identified on the street by a member
`of the police department as having an outstanding warrant for
`arrest, or may otherwise be taken into custody by police or an
`officer of the court. The arresting officer may then complete
`some paperwork identifying the individual, describing the
`reason for arrest or detention, list any impounded property,
`etc. This initial information may be collected, for instance, in
`a patrol car or the like. Thereafter, the arrestee may be trans
`ported to a local controlled environment facility such as, for
`example, police stations, department of corrections, juvenile
`facilities, municipal or county jails, etc., for further process
`ing and/or incarceration.
`In general, there is a period of time when the arrestee is
`temporarily incarcerated in a controlled environment facility
`but has not been fully processed as an inmate thereof. For
`example, the arrestee may have been photographed, finger
`printed, and entered into an initial set of books at the facility,
`but he or she may not yet have been arraigned (i.e., brought
`before a judge to hear the charges and to set bail). Before
`being fully processed into the controlled environment facility,
`an arrestee may go through a classification process, medical
`examination, hygienic processing (e.g., shower and delous
`ing), etc. In connection with these procedures, staff members
`may be required to complete a file in an inmate management
`system.
`In some situations, the arrestee may be placed in a tempo
`rary holding cell. Often the law requires that arrestees be
`given access to a telephone for placing one or more calls to
`seek assistance from someone outside of the controlled envi
`ronment facility, such as a friend or family member, an attor
`ney, a bail bondsman, etc. Today, local controlled environ
`ment facilities such as police stations and the like may not
`monitor, control, or even charge for those calls, particularly
`when the calls originate from holding cells. Typically, only
`the first call made by the arrestee must be provided free of
`charge. Nonetheless, local facilities do not ordinarily have the
`means to charge for subsequent calls, or even limit the amount
`of calls made a particular arrestee. As a result, the arrestee’s
`phone calls are often provided as free service and without any
`control or monitoring.
`Furthermore, after the arrestee becomes an inmate of a first
`controlled environment facility, he or she is oftentimes trans
`ferred to a second such facility. These transfers may take
`place, for example, based on the expected length of incarcera
`tion, jurisdiction where the crime took place, type of crime
`committed, etc. For instance, an inmate may be temporarily
`held at a local police station, and then moved to a county jail.
`After residing within the county jail for a period of time, the
`inmate may then be moved to a state or federal prison. Today
`each police, county, state, and federal authority implements
`its own inmate data collection and management system.
`Therefore, at each step in the inmate’s incarceration history
`beginning with his or her arrest up until his or her last transfer,
`redundant information is gathered and processed by each
`facility. The information collected by these different facilities
`is not connected in any way, and investigators must visit or
`contact each such entity when seeking information related to
`a single case or person.
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`This application is a continuation of U.S. patent applica
`tion Ser. No. 1 1/777,168 entitled “Inmate Management Sys
`tem and Call Processing Systems and Method,” filed Jul. 12,
`2007, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent applica
`tion Ser. No. 10/642,532 entitled “Centralized Call Process
`ing.” filed on Aug. 15, 2003. This Application is related to
`co-pending and commonly assigned U.S. patent application
`Ser. No. 10/135,878 entitled “Information Management and
`Movement System and Method.” filed Apr. 29, 2002, Ser. No.
`10/135,883 entitled “Optimizing Profitability in Business
`Transactions.” filed Apr. 29, 2002, Ser. No. 10/190,315
`entitled “System and Methods for Offering a Service to a
`Party Associated with a Blocked Call” filed Jul. 3, 2002, Ser.
`No. 09/640,831 entitled “System and Method for Reverse
`Billing of a Telephone Call” filed Aug. 17, 2000, Ser. No.
`10/022,946 entitled “Method for Determining an Entity
`Responsible for Billing a Called Party,” filed Dec. 17, 2001,
`Ser. No. 10/217,149 entitled “System and Method for Call
`Treatment,” filed Aug. 12, 2002, Ser. No. 10/252,956 entitled
`“Three-Way Telephone Call Prevention System and
`Method.” filed Sep. 20, 2002, Ser. No. 09/995,253 entitled
`“Method and Apparatus for Exchanging Data Between a Pri
`mary Computer System and an External Computer System to
`Ensure Transaction Reconciliation Between the Systems.”
`filed Nov. 27, 2001, Ser. No. 10/360,248 entitled “System and
`Method for Account Establishment and Transaction Manage
`ment Using Interrupt Messaging.” filed Feb. 7, 2003, Ser. No.
`10/360,442 entitled “Systems and Methods for Transaction
`Authorization Determination.” filed Feb. 7, 2003, Ser. No.
`10/437,839 entitled “Intelligent Queuing of Transaction
`Requests.” filed May 14, 2003, Ser. No. 10/420,585 entitled
`“System and Method for Detecting Unauthorized Call Activ
`ity,” filed Apr. 22, 2003, Ser. No. 10/602,233 entitled “System
`and Method for Transaction and Information Management.”
`filed Jun. 24, 2003, Ser. No. 10/640,505 entitled “Called Party
`Controlled Message Delivery,” filed Aug. 13, 2003, Ser. No.
`40
`10/720,732 entitled “Information Management and Move
`ment System and Method.” filed Nov. 24, 2003, Ser. No.
`10/828,735 entitled “Systems and Methods for Real-Time
`Obligation Search, Payment, and Update.” filed Apr. 21,
`2006, Ser. No. 10/836,976 entitled “Systems and Methods for
`Transaction and Information Management,” filed Apr. 30,
`2004, Ser. No. 10/720,848 entitled “Information Manage
`ment and Movement System and Method.” filed Nov. 24,
`2003, Ser. No. 10/952,327 entitled “Systems and Methods for
`Management and Dissemination of Information for Con
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`trolled Environment Facility,” filed Sep. 28, 2004, Ser. No.
`11/182,625 entitled “Systems and Methods for Acquiring,
`Accessing, and Analyzing Investigative Information,” filed
`Jul. 15, 2005, and Ser. No. 10/800,473 entitled “Call process
`ing with Voice over Internet Protocol Transmission,” filed on
`Mar 15, 2004, the disclosures of which are hereby incorpo
`rated herein by reference.
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`TECHNICAL FIELD
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`The present invention relates generally to information sys
`tems, and more particularly, to systems and methods for
`inmate management and call processing.
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`BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
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`Considerable time and expense are involved in accepting
`an inmate at a controlled environment facility. In most cases,
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`BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
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`The present invention is directed to systems and methods
`that provide centralized or nodal inmate management and
`telephone call processing capabilities to controlled environ
`ment facilities and law enforcement agencies. In one embodi
`ment, an inmate management and call processing system of
`the present invention serves a plurality of controlled environ
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`ment facilities such as, for example, police stations, detention
`centers, juvenile facilities, county and municipal jails, state
`penitentiaries, federal prisons, and the like. The inmate man
`agement and call processing system preferably includes an
`inmate information database to provide data aggregation and
`sharing capabilities across several facilities, in addition to call
`processing functionality.
`Each controlled environment facility may utilize the
`inmate management and call processing system to store,
`retrieve, and/or modify a record associated with an arrestee or
`inmate in the inmate information database. To that end, high
`bandwidth persistent data connections may be provided
`between the controlled environment facilities and the inmate
`management and call processing system for data processing
`use, such as by management terminals and/or other data pro
`cessing systems (e.g., commerce computer systems, justice
`application management computer systems, various periph
`eral devices, etc.) disposed at the facilities.
`When a person is arrested for the first time, an inmate
`record may be created that comprises a code, personal iden
`tification number (PIN), or some other form of identification
`(e.g., uniquely generated code, biometrics, etc.) that is asso
`ciated with him or her. Alternatively, if the arrestee has been
`arrested before, the arresting office may retrieve an existing
`record and update that record with new information. In some
`embodiments, another code or number may be created for the
`particular incident giving rise to the arrest, and