US 2002/0118798 A1 · System and method for recording telephone conversations

Abstract

The present invention is directed to a system and method for recording telephone conversations. In one embodiment, a telephone conversation between two or more parties is recorded and the recording of the conversation can be stopped without terminating or effecting the communication between the parties. Any of the parties to the conversation may request that the conversation be recorded or terminate the recording of that conversation. The party initiating the recording of the conversation may request the playback of the recorded conversation provided that party has playback service. If one of the parties requests that the conversation be recorded, then the non-recording parties (i.e., the one or more parties not requesting that the conversation be recorded) are notified that the conversation is being recorded if the applicable law at the location of the non-recording parties mandates that the non-recording parties be notified that the conversation is being recorded.

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Dependent claims

A telephone system for recording a conversation, or signals, comprising:

a conversation recording unit that records the conversation among a first party on a first telephone and a second party on a second telephone;
and
an infrastructure unit that interconnects the first telephone and the second telephone,
wherein the first telephone and the second telephone are a fixed telephone or a mobile telephone and the conversation recording unit is located within at least one of the infrastructure unit, the first telephone and the second telephone that is the mobile telephone, and an outside facility that is conferenced in to record the conversation.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and method for recording telephone conversations

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System and method for recording telephone conversations

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Abstract

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