Patent ID: 8537992

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving monitoring information for incoming communications and outgoing communications associated with a communication device, wherein the monitoring information is based on monitored communication activity at a network element without monitoring communication activity at the communication device and without monitoring communication activity at target communication devices; identifying communication identifiers initiating the incoming communications and communication identifiers targeted by the outgoing communications; identifying a subscriber associated with at least one of the identified initiating and targeted communication identifiers; identifying a subscriber account for the identified subscriber; obtaining subscriber information based on the identified subscriber account, wherein the subscriber information is accessible based on an intra-service agreement between different service providers to share subscriber data with each other for a same party via distributed databases; determining, by a processor, a related communication identifier associated with the at least one of the initiating and targeted communication identifiers based on the obtained subscriber information, wherein the related communication identifier can be acted upon to facilitate establishing communications; and recording in a communications log the initiating communication identifiers, the targeted communication identifiers and the related communication identifier.