Patent ID: 8488465

Claim:
A system, comprising: a plurality of mediation devices, at least one of the plurality of mediation devices configured to receive intercept instructions for intercepting information for a predetermined period of time; an intercept access device configured to receive the intercept instructions from at least one of the one or more mediation devices, wherein the intercept access device identifies and intercepts information based on the intercept instructions and encapsulates the intercepted information by associating an intercept identifier and an intercept sequence number with the intercepted information, wherein the intercepted information comprises a 5-tuple, wherein the 5-tuple comprises a protocol, wherein the information is part of a flow, wherein the intercept access device is further configured to initialize the intercept sequence number for the first intercepted information in the flow and increment the intercept sequence number for each intercepted information for the life of the flow; and an intercept load balancer configured to: receive the intercepted information, add a hash of the intercepted 5-tuple to the intercepted information, wherein the hash is based at least in part on the protocol, sequentially order the intercepted information based on the intercept sequence number of the intercepted information, and transmit the intercepted information to at least one of the plurality of mediation devices for distribution to one or more law enforcement devices, wherein the intercept load balancer transmits the intercepted information across the plurality of mediation devices to load balance and optimize distribution of the intercepted information to law enforcement.