Patent ID: 8358745

Claim:
A method for recording identity data and enabling on demand services in a communications system wherein said communications system includes a plurality of telecommunications enabled devices, each with a speaker and a microphone for a telecommunications session, said plurality of telecommunications enabled devices communitively coupled via a telecommunications network to a communications station having an on demand recording and voice record storage function and wherein a telecommunications session between two enabled devices and said communications station includes transmission of data packets therebetween which include metadata identifying the sending enabled device and which include on demand control command data and transfer control token command data, the method comprising: at the communications station, assigning an on demand control token to a first enabled device engaged in said telecommunications session; monitoring all data packets; upon recognition of an on demand command request from said sending enabled device which matches said on demand token at the communications station, activating said on demand recording and voice record storage function; and, upon recognition of said transfer control token command data from said first enabled device at the communications station, reassigning said on demand control token to a second of said two enabled devices engaged in said telecommunications session.