Patent ID: 8582731

Claim:
A method for recording telephone conversations between a subscriber to a service provider and a telephone conversation partner at a remote location, said method comprising the steps of: (a) establish a communication link between the subscriber and the service provider; (b) verifying the identity of the subscriber and the validity of the subscriber's subscription with the service provider; (c) sending a command from the subscriber to the service provider to select at least one of the following actions by the service provider: (1) causing all telephone calls between the subscriber and the subscriber's conversation partners to be recorded; (2) deactivating the recording of all telephone calls between the subscriber and the subscriber's conversation partners; and (3) recording the next telephone conversation between the subscriber and the subscriber's conversation partner; and (1) transmitting at least one previously recorded telephone conversation to the subscribe for listening; (2) deleting at least one previously recorded telephone conversation; (3) causing all telephone calls between the subscriber and the subscriber's conversation partners to be recorded; (4) deactivating the recording of all telephone calls between the subscriber and the subscriber's conversation partners; and (5) recording the next telephone conversation between the subscriber and the subscriber's conversation partner; (d) sending a warning message from the service provider to the conversation partner which warns that the telephone conversation is being recorded, whenever the service provider is commanded to record the conversation; wherein in the case where the subscriber receives a telephone call from a telephone conversation partner and the setting that all incoming and outgoing calls are automatically recorded is deactivated, the subscriber places the conversation partner on hold, dials the number of the service provider and after the verification step sends a command to record the incoming call, whereby the conversation partner is subsequently informed by means of the warning message that the conversation will be recorded and the recording starts.