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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2025
Filed:
May. 01, 2024
Confinement Telephony Technology, Llc, Greensboro, NC (US);
Todd Russell Thomasson, Elon, NC (US);
Margaret Suzanne Haffner, Covington, TX (US);
Zachary Alan Way, McLeansville, NC (US);
Timothy Edwin Pabon, Greensboro, NC (US);
Johnnie Richard Tayloe, Rural Hall, NC (US);
Confinement Telephony Technology, LLC, Greensboro, NC (US);
Abstract
Systems and techniques for permitting, establishing, monitoring and controlling calls based on messages from outside parties, outside party availability information, institution's call restriction information, and/or account holder preferences. In one example, a message from an outside party app on an outside party computing device is receive by an inmate app on an inmate device. The inmate device displays the message at the inmate calling app including a request for the inmate to call the outside party device during a time period. When the inmate initiates a call to the outside party the call is permitted or not permitted based on determining whether the call is within the specified time period.