Patent ID: 6870905

Claim:
A method for providing wiretap services in a telecommunication network where communications involving a wiretap party are to be monitored, the method comprising the steps of: receiving at an intelligent node in the network a call request in which a party to the call request is the wiretap party; establishing first, second, third and fourth terminations at a media gateway on a per call basis, the first and fourth terminations comprising one type of protocol termination and the second and third terminations supporting another communication protocol, coupling the first and second terminations together to provide two-way communications there between and coupling the third and fourth terminations together to provide two-way communications there between; coupling the terminations of the first and fourth terminations to communication channels coupled to a calling party and a terminating party, respectively; establishing on a per call basis fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth terminations utilizing the another communication protocol; coupling together the fifth and sixth terminations, the fifth and second terminations, and the sixth and third terminations to support two-way communications there between; coupling together the fifth and seventh terminations, and the sixth and eighth terminations, where the fifth and sixth terminations support one-way communications transmitted to the seventh and eighty terminations, respectively, from the first and fourth terminations, respectively; transmitting communications received by the seventh and eighth terminations to a line being monitored for the wiretap; whereby two-way communications between the calling and terminating parties is provided, and one-way communications from the calling party and the terminating party are provided to the line being monitored for the wiretap.