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Lawful interception of multimedia calls

  • US 20060264200A1
  • Filed: 04/09/2003
  • Published: 11/23/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of performing lawful interception of a multimedia call between two or more terminals, the method comprising:

  • detecting the initiation of said call at monitoring equipment located in the call path;

    forwarding from the monitoring equipment to a gateway, parameters defining at least one of the forward and reverse channels of said call;

    emulating a multimedia terminal at said gateway and setting up at least one multimedia call between the emulated terminal and a monitoring terminal, the properties of the call being negotiated in dependence upon the received parameters; and

    following the setting up of the first mentioned multimedia call, intercepting forward and/or reverse channel data at said monitoring equipment, routing the intercepted data to said gateway, and transmitting the data to the monitoring terminal over the forward channel of the or each second mentioned multimedia call.

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