Patent ID: 8577680

Claim:
A method for monitoring voice traffic on a network comprising network equipment, the method comprising: identifying a voice portion of the traffic; submitting the voice portion of the traffic to a speaker recognition engine; receiving a speaker template from the speaker recognition engine; obtaining data from the voice portion of the traffic, wherein the data includes intrinsic data and extrinsic data, wherein intrinsic data is derived from packet headers of the traffic, wherein extrinsic data is derived from payload of the traffic, wherein obtaining extrinsic data includes obtaining an associated lexicon identification, wherein the associated lexicon identification is used to classify the traffic, and associating the intrinsic data with the extrinsic data; associating the speaker template with the data, wherein a speaker identification number is associated with the speaker template, wherein the speaker identification number and information regarding the speaker template is included in the intrinsic data; logging the speaker template, the data, and the association in a log, wherein the log is stored on a storage device; comparing the speaker template to at least one existing speaker template; creating a new speaker template if the speaker template does not match to the at least one existing speaker template; and not retaining the portion of the traffic from which the speaker template was obtained.