Patent ID: 8577005

Claim:
A system for capturing call information comprising: a telephone set, smart phone, or other communications phone or device capable of delivering subscriber signaling codes and content messages; a stored program control switching element with a subscriber signaling code detector and a register, said switching element in the PSTN (public switched telephone network) and capable of preparing and delivering network signaling messages; and a customer node for receiving and decoding network signaling messages and content messages, wherein each said network signaling message includes data extracted from said register; wherein said stored program control switching element is programmed to accept particular customer signaling codes and in response to a customer signaling code is programmed to prepare and deliver a network signaling message directed to a customer node, said customer node having been identified to said stored program control switching element in a response to a query sent to a network accessible database and accessible via the PSTN, and said stored program control switching element is programmed to accept particular customer signaling codes following the conclusion of a call; and each of said network signaling message and said content message includes an indicator such that said customer node has the ability to associate said network signaling message and said content message.