Patent ID: 8041022

Claim:
A method comprising: at a policy manager that is centralized with respect to a plurality of gateways to a network, receiving from a bearer manager a request for assignment of a first address to an endpoint that is attempting to register on the network through one of the gateways, the bearer manager having a second address, the one of the gateways that the endpoint is attempting to register on the network through having a third address; in response to the request, accessing from the policy manager a policy profile of a user who is associated with the endpoint, the policy profile comprising user-specific policy data specific to the user, a portion of the user-specific policy data indicating whether data communicated to or from the user is subject to a lawful intercept; if data communicated to or from the user is subject to a lawful intercept: notifying from the policy manager a lawful intercept server that the user is attempting to have the endpoint registered on the network and communicating from the policy manager to the lawful intercept server one or more of the second address or the third address for installation of a content intercept tap at one or more of the bearer manager or the one of the gateways that the endpoint is attempting to register on the network through; notifying the lawful intercept server of the first address of the endpoint; detecting termination of the registration of the endpoint on the network; and notifying the lawful intercept server that the registration of the endpoint on the network has terminated.