Patent ID: 8228898

Claim:
A distributed call recording method for a phone, wherein the phone is coupled to a Local Area Network (LAN) and is a transceiver of a phone call, wherein the phone call is incoming from or outgoing to the LAN, said method comprising: recording packets of the phone call in a local memory of a recording agent pursuant to values of a call recording profile upon determining that the phone call triggers said recording based on a predetermined triggering condition, wherein the predetermined triggering condition is selected from the group consisting of a user intervention dictating said recording, a detection of a signaling packet for Voice Over Internet Protocol (VolP) in the phone call, and combinations thereof, wherein the recording agent runs on a personal computer (PC) that is coupled to the LAN, wherein the PC hosts the phone, or the recording agent is integrated into the phone; preparing the recorded phone call for being subsequently archived in a central archiving server pursuant to an archival configuration value of the phone call; transferring the phone call resulting from said preparing to the central archiving server coupled to the LAN via a secure connection, using an authenticating variable shared between the recording agent and the central archiving server; wherein said preparing comprises: parsing the recorded phone call and extracting signaling data and/or media data resulting from said parsing; generating at least one archival configuration value from the parsed signaling and/or media data, wherein said at least one archival configuration value specifies a keyword in the media data, a number of utterance of the keyword, and a predefined voice stress level such that the phone call is archived in the central archiving server only when the parsed signaling and/or media data of the phone call is of interest pursuant to said at least one archival configuration value; and storing said at least one archival configuration value in the local memory of the recording agent in a manner that said at least one archival configuration value associates with the phone call.