Multiple Carriers in Secure Environment
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Abstract
Systems and methods which facilitate selection of communication carriers for communications made in association with a controlled environment facility by a party to the communications are shown. Embodiments allow for a calling party and/or a called party to select a preferred communication carrier from a plurality of communication carriers for a current communication and/or one or more future communications. A party'"'"'s carrier selection may be stored by a communication processing system for use with respect to a plurality of communication sessions. Embodiments provide a conflict resolution algorithm to arbitrate conflicting carrier selections where both a calling party and a called party to select a carrier for a communication session. Embodiments provide a premise based communication processing system, a centralized communication processing system, or a distributed configuration comprising a hybrid of the foregoing premise based and centralized configurations.
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44 Claims
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21. A method comprising:
adapting a communication processing system of a controlled environment facility to enable a selection, by at least one party to a communication session, of a particular communication carrier among a plurality of communication carriers available to be used in the communication session, the adapted communication processing system configured to initiate the communication session in association with a resident of the controlled environment facility using the selection of the particular communication carrier. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A system comprising:
communication processing system configured to provide control of communications made in association with a controlled environment facility, the communication processing system including a communication carrier selection subsystem, whereby a communication session provided through the communication processing system is provided using a communication carrier selected by a party to the communication session using the carrier selection subsystem. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
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