Patent ID: 7305226

Claim:
An architecture for intercepting communications in a communications network, comprising: a first access device wherein the first access device is located external to a network infrastructure of the communications network and wherein the first access device is a base transmission station that includes an intercept access point, wherein the base transmission station receives a communication from a user communications device where the communication includes call identifying information and call content information and wherein the intercept access point records the call identifying information of the communication from the communications device, and further wherein the first access device transmits the recorded call identifying information the call identifying information, and the call content information to the network infrastructure of the communications network over a communications channel that interconnects the first access device to the network infrastructure; and a second access device wherein the second access device resides within the network infrastructure and wherein the second access device captures the call content information of the communication; and wherein the network infrastructure provides the call content information to a party that is called by a calling party using the user communications device by utilizing the call identifying information.