Patent ID: 8812347

Claim:
A method, comprising: assigning, by a system comprising a processor, a first public network address to a first communication device of a set of communication devices to facilitate indicating that a first user identity associated with the first communication device is a user identity of interest based on first information associated with the first user identity, in accordance with a defined policy relating to traffic capture; assigning, by the system, a second public network address to a second communication device of the set of communication devices to facilitate indicating that a second user identity associated with the second communication device is a user identity that is not of interest based on second information associated with the second user identity, in accordance with the defined policy; aggregating, by the system, portions of traffic respectively associated with communication devices of the set of communication devices at a set of regional aggregation node devices associated with a set of regions of a communication network to facilitate analyzing the portions of traffic, wherein the portions of traffic comprise a first portion of traffic associated with the first communication device and a second portion of traffic associated with the second communication device; analyzing, by the system, the portions of traffic comprising address information indicating public network addresses respectively associated with the portions of traffic, wherein the public network addresses comprise the first public network address and the second public network address; and capturing, by the system, the first portion of the traffic associated with the first communication device based on a defined capture criterion associated with the defined policy and a result of the analyzing the portions of traffic indicating the first portion of traffic is associated with the first public network address, wherein the defined capture criterion relates to capture of traffic associated with communication devices associated with user identities of interest.