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Securus Technologies Granted Additional Eight (8) Patents for Law Enforcement and Corrections
Securus Technologies, a leading provider of civil and criminal justice
technology solutions for public safety, investigation, corrections and
monitoring, announced today that the United States Patent Office
recently issued eight (8) new Securus patents, granted 40 patents in the
last 4 years, and Securus has filed 100 new patent applications in the
last 4 years.
"We received word from the United States Patent Office that we were
issued eight (8) additional new patents in the last six (6) months,"
said Richard A. ("Rick") Smith, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of
Securus Technologies, Inc. "That increases our total patent portfolio to
288, the largest in our industry by far. The entire rest of the industry
has 176 patents compared to our 288 patents, so we lead by 112 patents -
and that number is distributed among 7 different competitors."
Securus' eight (8) new patents are outlined as follows:
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Patent Number
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Patent Title
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Technical Description
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9,621,713
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Identical Conversation Detection Method and Apparatus
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An automated system for detecting situations in which identical
segments of conversation appear within two different recordings. The
system automatically detects where within each of two audio
recordings an identical conversation segment begins and ends, thus
enabling detection of conversations where multiple prison inmates
participated in a conference call.
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9,628,756
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Emergency Communications within Controlled-Environment Facilities
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Systems and methods for providing emergency communications via a
communication platform within controlled-environment facilities. The
communication platform may be configured to, in a first mode of
operation, enable communications between residents of a controlled
environment facility and friends and families. The method may also
include switching the communication platform from the first mode of
operation to an emergency mode of operation. In the emergency mode
of operation, the communication platform may be configured to enable
an emergency communication from resident of the controlled
environment facility to a second device controlled by emergency
response personnel (e.g., hostage negotiator, counselor, police
officer, etc.).
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9,654,620
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Systems and Methods for Call Treatment Using a Third Party Database
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Systems and methods which detect unauthorized, impermissible, or
otherwise undesired call activity through the use of one or more
third party databases. For example, a controlled environment
facility information management system may access an external
database, such as a victim notification database, which is created
and maintained by a third party unrelated to the controlled
environment facility. Such third party database access may be
accomplished at the point of call validation or caller verification
for determining the treatment of the call (e.g., allowed, blocked,
allowed with limitations, etcetera). Such call treatment
determinations may be made with respect a particular prisoner or
other resident of the controlled environment facility making the
call, may be made with respect to all calls made from a particular
controlled environment facility, may be made with respect to a group
of controlled environment facilities, etc.
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9,667,763
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Family Communications in a Controlled-Environment Facility
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Systems and methods for facilitating family communications in a
controlled-environment facility. In some embodiments, a method may
include receiving a request for an electronic communication between
a resident and a non-resident of a controlled-environment facility,
identifying that the non-resident is the resident's child or parent
and, in response to the identification, enabling a family counseling
provider to access the electronic communication. The method may also
include, after completion of the follow-up counseling session
between the resident and the family counseling provider, providing
an incentive to the resident. For example, the incentive may be
selected from the group consisting of: electronic content,
commissary item, increased number or amount of visitation, increased
number or amount of electronic communications, increased leisure
time, increased pay, and credit for good behavior.
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9,680,903
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Delivery of Video Mail to Controlled-Environment Facility Residents
via Podcasts
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Delivery of video to controlled-environment facility residents via
podcasts which includes accepting a digital video file or series of
digital image files, such as from a non-resident. Such video or
image files may be uploaded by the non-resident, via a provided user
interface. The video file or series of digital image files are
converted into a podcast. The podcast is cached in
controlled-environment facility content server storage and the
resident is notified of availability of the podcast. The podcast may
be streamed and/or downloaded, within the controlled-environment
facility, to one of the controlled-environment facility resident
media devices.
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9,729,709
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Location Based Services
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Systems and methods for developing, deploying, providing, and/or
operating location-based services for controlled-environment
facilities. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving,
from a resident of a controlled-environment facility, a request to
establish a remote communication with a mobile device operated by a
non-resident of the controlled-environment facility. The method may
also include allowing or denying the request depending, at least in
part, upon a physical location of the mobile device at the time of
the request to establish the remote communication and subsequent
monitoring during the allowed communication. The method may also
include terminating an allowed remote communication based on the
monitored location of the mobile device during the remote
communication. In some cases, the method may also include comparing
an indication of the physical location with a geo-fencing rule and
taking a predetermined action in response to the comparison.
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9,736,428
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Providing Remote Visitation and Other Services to Non-Residents of
Controlled-Environment Facilities via Display Devices
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Systems and methods for providing remote visitation and other
services to non-residents of controlled-environment facilities via
display devices. A method may include performing, by one or more
computer systems, receiving a command to initiate a remote
visitation session between a resident and a non-resident of a
controlled-environment facility, and enabling the non-resident's
participation in the remote visitation session, wherein the
non-resident participates in the remote visitation session using a
display device selected from the group consisting of: a television
set, a display device set, a projector, and a monitor.
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9,742,910
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Inbound Calls to Intelligent Controlled-Environment Facility
Resident Media and/or Communications Devices
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Inbound call processing systems and methods for processing inbound
calls to controlled-environment facility resident media and/or
communications devices employ an inbound resident call server. The
call server is configured to host inbound calling accounts
established by non-residents, receive inbound calls from the
non-residents, route the inbound calls to an authenticating server,
confirm that the resident device is active, and connect the inbound
resident call system with the resident device if active or inform
the non-resident the resident is not available if not. The inbound
resident call server also connects the non-resident inbound call
with the resident device if the non-resident is associated with the
inbound calling account, the inbound calling account is associated
with an address identifier of the resident device and the resident's
personal identification number is associated with the address
identifier of the resident device, all of which may be authenticated
by the authenticating server.
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Mr. Smith continued, "We currently have approximately 300 software
developers, over 100 field service technicians, and a large marketing
and R & D Team that have good ideas - things that our prison and jail
customers want, things that are unique, and we routinely turn those
ideas into patents. It's our biggest, most valuable asset - good people
with ideas that are solving our customers' problems.
"Our patent portfolio includes patents in most areas of corrections
communications and operations including audio calling, video calling,
fraud detection, call platform architecture, call storage, inmate
purchasing, billing, call throughput, inmate monitoring, word spotting,
voice biometrics, and commissary services, and there are many other
areas as well.
"We issued a formal 'Patent Portfolio Bake Off' Challenge to the former
leading competitor in our sector that went unanswered so we did
something that was even better, I believe," said Smith. "We used our
outside counsel to engage three (3) independent, well-known,
intellectual property consulting firms to compare and contrast our
patent portfolio with our competitor's patent portfolio. Outside counsel
did not disclose who their client was, so the comparison was
independent, intellectually honest, and non-biased. Counsel didn't even
tell the consulting firms what the list of patents was for each company.
Securus didn't provide any help or assistance to aid their analysis at
all.
"The three (3) independent patent portfolio analyses clearly show that
by virtually any qualitative or quantitative measurement, Securus'
patent portfolio is much stronger, broader, and more valuable than the
other company's portfolio," Smith said. "We did this work, spent this
time, and paid a significant amount of money to make clear to everyone
that we have the largest and best patent portfolio that exists in the
industry today - period.
"We build patents around products that our customers want - and that is
good for inmates, friends and family, officers, investigators, victims
of crimes, and society - I am proud of what we have contributed to our
industry and society. We improve inmate communications, reduce
recidivism, help solve and prevent crimes - and ultimately save lives,"
said Smith.
"Our patent count is wonderful - but that is not the point of our
business. We exist to 'serve and protect' - inmates, friends, family
members, law enforcement, corrections, and all of society. Saving lives,
solving crimes, preventing crimes, allowing inmates to communicate more
and at a lower cost, provide an ability for them to learn and have
entertainment, thereby reducing recidivism - those are much more
important than our patent portfolio," concluded Smith.
ABOUT SECURUS TECHNOLOGIES
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and serving more than 3,450 public
safety, law enforcement and corrections agencies and over 1,200,000
inmates across North America, Securus Technologies is committed to serve
and connect by providing emergency response, incident management, public
information, investigation, biometric analysis, communication,
information management, inmate self-service, and monitoring products and
services in order to make our world a safer place to live. Securus
Technologies focuses on connecting what matters®. To
learn more about our full suite of civil and criminal justice technology
solutions, please visit SecurusTechnologies.com.
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