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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 20, 1999
David L Cox, Bucharest, RO;
General Dynamics Government Systems Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems consistent with the present invention intercept and monitor signals of any type associated with a target telephone number in a communications network such that the interception and the monitoring are undetectable. Such methods and systems configure a network by provisioning a route to a collection node in the network, defining a first trigger for intercepting a signal associated with the target telephone number, and by defining a second trigger for routing the intercepted signal on the provisioned route to the collection node. The methods and systems then monitor the signal at the collection node by intercepting the signal based on the first trigger and routing the intercepted signal to the collection node based on the second trigger.