US 7,551,732 B2
Centralized voice over IP recording and retrieval method and apparatus
Joseph Clifton Anders, Mobile, Ala. (US)
Assigned to Global Tel*Link Corporation, Mobile, Ala. (US)
Filed on Dec. 07, 2004, as Appl. No. 11/5,816.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/527918, filed on Dec. 08, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0141678 A1, Jun. 30, 2005
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04M 3/53 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 379—191  [370/235; 379/85; 379/88.17; 379/88.26; 379/112.01; 380/283; 455/411; 455/413] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An audio recording system, comprising:
a first telephone instrument located at a first location within a prison environment and configured for communications with a second telephone instrument located at a second location remote from said first location;
an analog to digital converter at said first location, having an input and an output, said first telephone instrument coupled to said input of said analog to digital converter; and
a data storage device located at a third location physically remote from said first location and said second location, said data storage device coupled to said output of said analog to digital converter, whereby conversation data from conversations conducted by way of said first telephone instrument may be recorded and stored at said third location physically remote from said first location and said second location.