Controlled-environment facility resident communication detection
View Patent ↗Systems and methods insert a modulated signal into audio of a controlled-environment facility resident's side of a call, such as by a controlled-environment communication apparatus, or the like. The same or a different controlled-environment communication apparatus, or the like, may detect the same and/or another modulated signal inserted into the audio of the same and/or another controlled-environment facility resident's side of the call in the audio of an other party's side of the call. The same or a different controlled-environment communication apparatus, or the like, may determine if more than one modulated signal is present in the other call party's side of the call and alert an authority that more than one controlled-environment facility resident is taking part in the call.
1. A method comprising:
inserting, by a controlled-environment communication apparatus, a modulated signal into audio of controlled-environment facility residents' sides of calls; and
detecting, by the same or a different controlled-environment communication apparatus, the same and/or another modulated signal inserted into the audio of the same and/or another controlled-environment facility resident's side of a call in the audio of an other party's side of the call; and
determining, by the same or a different controlled-environment communication apparatus, if more than one modulated signal inserted into the audio of residents' sides of calls is present in the other call party's side of the call.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, alerting, by the same or a different controlled-environment communication apparatus, an authority that a controlled-environment facility resident is taking part in the call.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, alerting, by the same or a different controlled-environment communication apparatus, an authority that more than one controlled-environment facility resident is taking part in the call.
4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising the modulated signal including resident identification information, and identifying the resident to the authority.
5. The method of claim 3 , further comprising the modulated signal including controlled-environment facility identification information, and identifying the facility to the authority.
6. The method of claim 3 , further comprising the modulated signal including controlled-environment facility telephone port information, and identifying a location within the controlled environment facility from which the resident is calling to the authority.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, alerting the other party that the call is from a controlled-environment facility resident in response to detecting the inserted signal in the audio of an other party's side of the call.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the modulated signal includes resident identification information, and the method of claim 1 further comprises identifying the resident to the other party.
9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by one or more computer systems, cause the one or more computer systems to:
insert a modulated signal into audio of residents' sides of calls to which residents of one of one or more controlled-environment facilities is a party;
detect each modulated signal inserted into the audio of calls to which a resident of one of one or more controlled-environment facilities is a party in audio of another party's side of calls;
determine if more than a predetermined number of modulated signals inserted into the audio of residents' sides of calls are present in the audio of any of the other call party's sides of calls; and
alert an authority that more than the predetermined number of controlled-environment facility residents are taking part in a call in response to a determination that more than a predetermined number of modulated signals are present in the audio of any other call party's side of the call.
10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the modulated signal includes resident identification information and the alert further comprises identifying the residents taking part in the call to the authority.
11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the modulated signal includes controlled-environment facility identification information and the alert further comprises identifying, to the authority, facilities of residents taking part in the call.
12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the modulated signal includes controlled-environment facility telephone port information and the alert further comprises identifying, to the authority, a location within at least one controlled-environment facility from which at least one respective resident is taking part in the call, based at least in part on the telephone port information.
13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , wherein the modulated signal is inaudible.
14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the modulated signal is inaudible due to its frequency domain or band.
15. A controlled-environment communication apparatus comprising at least one processor and memory coupled to the at least one processor, wherein the memory is configured to store program instructions executable by the at least one processor to cause the controlled-environment communication apparatus to:
insert a modulated signal into audio of a controlled-environment facility resident's side of a call placed employing the controlled-environment communication apparatus; and
detect the modulated signal inserted into the audio of the controlled-environment facility resident's side of the call and another modulated signal inserted into audio of another controlled-environment facility resident's side of another call in the audio of an other party's side of the call.
16. The controlled-environment communication apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the program instructions are further executable by the at least one processor to cause the controlled-environment communication apparatus to alert an authority that more than one controlled-environment facility resident is taking part in the call.
17. The controlled-environment communication apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the program instructions are further executable by the at least one processor to cause the controlled-environment communication apparatus to modulate the signal to include resident identification information, and to identify each resident taking part in the call to the authority.
18. The controlled-environment communication apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the program instructions are further executable by the at least one processor to cause the controlled-environment communication apparatus to modulate the signal to include controlled-environment facility identification information, and to identify the facility of each resident taking part in the call to the authority.
19. The controlled-environment communication apparatus of claim 16 , wherein the program instructions are further executable by the at least one processor to cause the controlled-environment communication apparatus to modulate the signal to include location information within each controlled-environment facility where each resident taking part in the call is located, and to identify to the authority a location within a respective controlled environment facility from which each resident that is a party to the call is calling.
20. The controlled-environment communication apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the apparatus is a controlled-environment facility communication system.
21. The controlled-environment communication apparatus of claim 15 , wherein the apparatus is intelligent controlled-environment facility communication device.