Patent ID: 7440558

Claim:
A telephony security system located within an enterprise, at one or more of said enterprise's locations, for monitoring and/or controlling calls, wherein said calls is understood to refer to an inbound call, an outbound call, or any combination thereof, between end-user stations within said enterprise and said end-user stations'respective circuits into a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), said system comprising: one or more rules controlled by a system administrator, said one or more rules designating one or more actions, said one or more actions to include allowing or denying a call, said one or more actions to be performed based upon at least one attribute of said call; one or more line sensors, said one or more line sensors including: determining said at least one attribute of said call, and performing said one or more actions based upon said at least one attribute of said call; said one or more line sensors being constructed and arranged to not interrupt said call unless designated to do so in said one or more rules; and wherein said one or more rules designating said one or more actions comprises at least one of: a. redirecting said call, b. logging said call, c. recording said call, d. encrypting said call, e. generating a report, f. providing an alert, g. removing a number, wherein said number is understood to refer to a source number of said call, a destination number of said call, an alias or identifier associated with said call, or any combination thereof, from a current group associated with said number and placing said number into a different group not previously associated with said number, h. monitoring said call, a plurality of said call, or any combination thereof, for one or more patterns of interest, i. monitoring said call for one or more data of interest, j. authenticating said call for remote access, and k. monitoring said call for one or more sequences of digital data.