Patent ID: 8832442

Claim:
A method of securely distributing data in group communication, the group having a plurality of members, said method comprising: (A) forming a group having a variable plurality of members, each member of the group having a mobile communicator; (B) under a data recording mode, assigning one of the members of the group to be a recording member based upon a determination that the assigned one member of the group has a characteristic that satisfies a specified requirement set forth in a group communication policy common to all of the variable plurality of members of the group, wherein recording tasks performed by the mobile communicator of the assigned one member of the group are conducted during the group communication without being monitored by a central controller; (C) enabling the recording member to generate and send a security key to other members of the group, and to record communication contents of all the members during a group communication session in a memory of the mobile communicator of the recording member so as to create an entry of recorded data; and (D) enabling the other members of the group to receive and store the security key, the security key being provided to enable the other members of the group to retrieve the recorded data from the memory of the mobile communicator of the recording member under a data retrieval mode, wherein the members conduct the group communication session in a secure tunnel, and the security key generated by the recording member is sent to the other members of the group participating in the group communication session through the secure tunnel.