Patent ID: 9723040
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method, performed by one or more computing devices, of controlling a virtual visitation session between an inmate of a controlled-access residential institution and a non-inmate of the institution, the method comprising: providing the virtual visitation session by sharing an interface on an inmate device of the inmate and on a non-inmate device of the non-inmate, wherein the inmate views and interacts with content of the interface on the inmate device and the non-inmate views and interacts with the content of the interface on the non-inmate device, wherein the content of the interface comprises application content shared from applications running on the non-inmate device; monitoring applications in use on the non-inmate device during the virtual visitation session to detect launches of prohibited applications on the non-inmate device; detecting a launch of a prohibited application on the non-inmate device based on monitoring the applications in use on the non-inmate device; preventing use of the prohibited application in the virtual visitation session by pausing the virtual visitation session so that the virtual visitation session does not share the prohibited application with the inmate device and providing a message on the non-inmate device regarding discontinuing use of the prohibited application to resume the virtual visitation session; and based on the non-inmate device discontinuing use of the prohibited application, resuming the virtual visitation session, wherein resuming the virtual visitation session comprises resuming sharing of the application content from the applications running on the non-inmate device on the interface of the virtual visitation session.