Patent ID: 8666028
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for providing intermediary monitoring control of a wireless communication, the method comprising: configuring a mobile telephone switching office (MTSO) for controlling wireless communications and for determining, providing and controlling subscriber features; providing a customer information database at the MTSO for storing features associated with each subscriber; receiving a communication at the MTSO from a calling party directed to a called party; parsing the customer information database to determine, from the features associated with the subscriber, whether the communication from the calling party directed to the called party should be monitored by a monitoring party; upon determining the communication from the calling party directed to the called party should be monitored by a monitoring party, provisioning call monitoring according to the customer information database at the MTSO by sending a notification of the received communication from the MTSO to a monitoring communication device of the monitoring party, identifying one or more communication processing instructions the monitoring party may issue for processing the communication directed from the calling party to the called party, and provisioning an intermediary monitoring control feature on the monitoring communication device of the monitoring party to present the identified one or more communication processing instructions for selection by the monitoring party, the identified one or more communication processing instructions including options to allow the communication, block the communication, allow and listen to the communication between the calling party and the called party, record the communication, send the communication to another number, and view history between the calling party and the called party; receiving, at the MTSO, a communication processing instruction selected by the monitoring party from the identified one or more communication processing instructions displayed by the provisioned intermediary monitoring control feature on the monitoring communication device of the monitoring party; and in response to receiving the communication processing instruction from the monitoring communication device of the monitoring party, processing the communication from the calling party to the called party according to the communication processing instruction received from the monitoring communication device.