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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2016
Applicant:
Tech Friends, Inc., Jonesboro, AR (US);
Inventors:
Bobby L. Shipman, Jr., Jonesboro, AR (US);
Mark A. Haney, Jonesboro, AR (US);
Assignee:
TECH FRIENDS, INC., Jonesboro, AR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 15/00 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/00241 (2013.01); G06K 9/00469 (2013.01); H04L 51/22 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0081 (2013.01);
Abstract
An incoming physical mail item addressed to a resident of a controlled-environment facility is converted to a digital format mail item, which is associated with the resident and archived in an electronic database. A determination may be made whether the resident is allowed to receive the physical mail item. If so, the digital format mail item may be delivered to the resident as an electronic message, if an electronic message service is available to the resident.