Patent ID: 9621504
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for handing messages on a secure social network (SSN) comprising: receiving a message comprising a recipient name from a SSN member sender; retrieving a list of SSN member names approved to communicate with the SSN member sender; determining that the recipient name matches a first SSN member name and a second SSN member name stored in the list of SSN member names, wherein the first SSN member name and the second SSN member name identify two separate inmates of a controlled facility; retrieving a first period of time since a previous communication between the SSN member sender and the first SSN member name; retrieving a second period of time since a previous communication between the SSN member sender and the second SSN member name; selecting, from the two separate inmates and based on the first period of time exceeding the second period of time, a selected inmate identified by the second SSN member name; retrieving, from an identity data item of the selected inmate, a device protocol of a device of the selected inmate; converting, in response to retrieving the device protocol, the message to be compatible with the device protocol; and sending, in response to converting, the message to the selected inmate.