Patent ID: 7801281

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for processing a court ordered trap, the method comprising: receiving a request to monitor calls to or from a target telephone number identified in the court ordered trap, wherein the request comprises one or more request parameters including the target telephone number, wherein receiving the request comprises receiving a query comprising the request parameters, the request parameters further including at least one of the following: a court order identifier, a name of a requestor, a verbatim type of the request, a date range to monitor the calls, a new status indicator for the query, a frequency to deliver trap results, and a delivery location; storing the request, wherein the target telephone number is stored in association with a court order; utilizing the request to identify and to retrieve call records matching the request parameters from a plurality of call records, wherein utilizing the request to identify and retrieve call records matching the request parameters from a plurality of call records comprises sending the request to one or more search servers, wherein each search server receives and indexes call records for a designated region; sending to the search servers an update request for the call records matching the request parameters from the plurality of call records; receiving the call records that match; merging the call records that match into a single history file associated with the court order and the target telephone number; and removing duplicate call records from the call records that match.