meshDETECT® is pleased to announce that it has been granted a sixth wireless blockchain patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for U.S. Patent 11,956,383 entitled “Systems and Methods For Blockchain Wireless Services In a Controlled Environment.” This is our twelfth patent granted overall.

The claims in our latest blockchain patent are directed toward a multi-blockchain system to secure, manage, and validate forensic data in controlled environments such as prisons and jails

Digital Forensics

Digital forensics deals with legal evidence left in computers, devices, and digital recording media. This is a procedure and method for legally identifying and demonstrating the facts of a specific activity that occurred using a digital device.

Effective and reliable digital-evidence management systems require non-repudiation, i.e. cryptographic proof that an action regarding forensic data either occurred or did not occur. For instance who accessed information, when, was data altered and if so, how.

Inmate Digital Data Grows

With the wide spread adoption of digital devices such as tablets for use by inmates, the risk of misuse, financial fraud, external party harassment, etc. has grown exponentially.

The evidence of these incidents is essential to prison and police investigations because it illustrates the facts of the cyber-crime and connects inmates to their criminal activities. Therefore, it is crucial to handle the gathered evidence carefully to ensure that it is admissible to police investigations and court trials as well as to prevent tampering or misconduct.

Leveraging the blockchain in a corrections environment provides the inherent capability for insuring the transparency, immutability, and auditability of forensic evidence. However, there are security and privacy risks in using the same blockchain for inmate transactions as for forensic evidence storage, management, and use.

Inmate Data Forensics

Our patent claims a system with at multiple blockchains in a controlled environment. The blockchains are interconnected and networked but segregated.

There are a number of user nodes, each node with selected permission levels to submit and retrieve forensic data and at least one administrative blockchain node that communicates and coordinates the formatting of data, the submission of data, and the retrieval of data from the blockchains.

There is the ability to create and manage smart contracts that regulate creation, access, and modification of data; as well as the rules, settings, and permissions relating to blockchain data, interaction, security, and access.

Through this multi-blockchain system approach, independent but interconnected blockchains can have different security, privacy and access models to handle the forensic data associated with criminal evidence, as well as inmate medical records, financial records, complaints, legal case data, blockchain wallet use, and keys.

Our five previous blockchain patents can be found at US10,694,032, US10,855,838, US11,140,263, US11,425,244 and US11,689,658.

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The smuggling and illegal use of contraband cell phones in prisons in the United States has corrections administrators and officers at a disadvantage as wireless detection technologies have not kept pace with the surge in illegal cell phones in prisons. It is estimated that over 10,000 illegal cell phones were seized during 2010 in California state prisons alone. Signal jamming technologies are proving to be too expensive, and the time and cost demands on prison staff attempting to prevent cell phone smuggling are growing rapidly at a time when state and local prison budgets are shrinking.

meshIP, LLC and CELLHIRE USA, LLC have combined cloud computing technologies and cell phone control innovation through the execution of an exclusive joint marketing agreement to provide a secure prison cell phone service. This highly controlled and innovative service provides detainees highly controlled access to cell phones combined with a full suite of forensic tools for law enforcement, while providing a significant new revenue opportunity for prisons.

According to Brian Byrne, Managing Partner at meshIP, “Many technology and control strategies have been proposed to manage this very complex problem, but those currently in use at prisons come at a very high cost with limited success. The meshDETECT™ secure cell phone platform devalues the contraband value of the smuggled prison cell phone and immediately creates a safer, more secure, and controllable environment for both corrections officials and detainees.”

The exclusive joint marketing agreement is the final stage of a joint product development effort in anticipation of a service launch to prisons in the United States. This secure cell phone service compliments the existing pay phone services offered in most prisons, while offering the additional benefits of contraband reduction, public safety and behavior management.

meshIP is a technology services and development company headquartered in Plano, Texas, providing cloud computing services in the U.S. and internationally. Learn more at http://www.meshIP.com.

Cellhire® is a world leader in mobile communications providing clients and partners with international and competitive wireless innovation making it possible to take advantage of the most advanced voice and data technologies. http://www.cellhire.com

You can find the original press release here.

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