Device for indirectly forwarding messages in data and/or communications networks
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorMichael Gundlach
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Abstract
In order to satisfy the legal requirements which are made of the monitoring of telecommunications traffic, means for storing monitoring data (subscribers to be monitored, monitoring users, etc.) and for transmitting messages and indications to the users (police, information services, etc.) are provided in store-and-forward systems. The transmission of these messages and indications is also triggered, inter alia, by access operations to messages to be monitored or by access operations to messages which are addressed to subscribers that are to be monitored.
Claims10
A device for indirectly forwarding messages in data and/or communications networks, comprising:
- means for storing messages and receiver identification;
- means for checking an identification of a subscriber accessing the device;
- means for storing information indicating whether a subscriber is to be monitored and, if appropriate, by what monitoring user the subscriber is to be monitored;
- and
- means permitting a message addressed to a given subscriber marked as a subscriber to be monitored to be transmitted to a monitoring user stored for the given subscriber.
A communications device for indirectly forwarding messages in data and/or communications networks, comprising:
- a communications processor;
- a memory device connected to said communications processor for storing messages and receiver identification;
- said communications processor being programmed to:
- check an identification of a subscriber accessing the device;
- store information indicating whether a subscriber is to be monitored and, if appropriate, by what monitoring user the subscriber is to be monitored;
- and
- permit a message addressed to a given subscriber marked as a subscriber to be monitored to be transmitted to a monitoring user stored for the given subscriber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.