Patent ID: 8233409

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a network device, data associated with a communication between two participants; receiving, by the network device, one or more trigger control signals, the one or more trigger control signals including one or more criteria that relate to when to record information associated with the communication between the two participants; evaluating, by the network device, the data based on the one or more criteria; determining, by the network device and based on the evaluation, whether to record the data; generating, by the network device and based on determining to record the data, one or more copies of the data; and sending, by the network device and based on generating the one or more copies of the data, a copy, of the one or more copies of the data, to a recipient who differs from the two participants, the generating of the one or more copies of the data and sending the copy occurring in real-time to enable the recipient to receive the copy during the communication between the two participants.