Patent ID: 8737575

Claim:
A method for recording a conversation at an endpoint device that is in communication with a communication network, comprising: receiving a download of a firmware component at the endpoint device from the communication network to provide a monitoring function supporting communications assistance for law enforcement act monitoring; receiving an instruction to activate the monitoring function at the endpoint device from the communication network, wherein the instruction is sent by a call control element, wherein the instruction is received from the call control element when the call control element determines from a call setup message for the call that a user of the endpoint device is on a watch list; recording the conversation by the endpoint device on the endpoint device via the monitoring function for a call, wherein the endpoint device is used for the call and to record the conversation between a calling party and a called party, wherein the endpoint device is an endpoint device of one of the calling party and the called party; and uploading by the endpoint device a recorded call to a communications assistance for law enforcement act server after the call has finished.