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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2008
Veronica Martinez, Irving, TX (US);
Marc Hite, Plano, TX (US);
Luke Keiser, Frisco, TX (US);
Securus Technologies, Inc., Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for proactively establishing a third-party payment account for services rendered to a resident of a controlled-environment facility ('CEF'). A campaign-triggering event is detected, which triggers contact of prospective third-party ('3-party') payers for a resident of a CEF in order to encourage such prospective 3-party payers to establish 3-party payment accounts for the resident. In this manner, the prospective 3-party payers are proactively contacted prior to an expected future demand for service by the resident. A method thus comprises identifying at least one prospective third-party payer for a resident of a controlled-environment facility, and proactively contacting the identified at least one prospective third-party payer prior to demand for service by the resident to encourage the identified at least one prospective third-party payer to establish a third-party payment account for payment for future service expected for the resident.