Patent ID: 6418208
Filing Date: 2002-07-09
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
A method for controlling a statutory monitoring of telecommunication traffic, which comprises:defining relevant monitoring authorities for monitoring subscribers such that the relevant monitoring authorities are entities other than the subscribers to be monitored; providing, in a network component, a data base storing information determining which communication-relevant data are to be transmitted to the relevant monitoring authorities for the subscribers to be monitored; defining monitoring profiles stipulating in each case which of the communication-relevant data are to be transmitted to which relevant monitoring authority of the relevant monitoring authorities; and storing, for a subscriber to be monitored, data selected from the group consisting of one of the monitoring profiles that is valid for different ones of the relevant monitoring authorities and a plurality of the monitoring profiles, each one of the plurality of the monitoring profiles applicable to at least one of the monitoring authorities.