Patent ID: 8588109

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a computing device, a lawful intercept request from a law enforcement agency; determining, by the computing device, a type of lawful intercept, of a plurality of types of lawful intercepts, based on the lawful intercept request, the plurality of types of lawful intercepts including: a packet data lawful intercept to intercept non-session initiation protocol (SIP)-based traffic associated with an intercept subject, and a SIP-based applications (SBA) lawful intercept to intercept traffic associated with one or more SIP multimedia sessions; provisioning, by the computing device and when the determined type of lawful intercept is the packet data lawful intercept, a policy control and charging rules function (PCRF) and a packet data network (PDN) gateway (PGW), via the PCRF, for the packet data lawful intercept; receiving, by the computing device and when the determined type of lawful intercept is the packet data lawful intercept, intercept related information (IRI) from the PCRF; receiving, by the computing device and when the determined type of lawful intercept is the packet data lawful intercept, intercepted packet data from the PGW; and providing, by the computing device and when the determined type of lawful intercept is the packet data lawful intercept, the intercepted packet data and the IRI to the law enforcement agency.