System and method for recording telephonic communications
View Patent ↗A system and method are disclosed for recording a telephone call upon demand by a party to the telephone call. The method includes the steps of receiving a request from a first party to record a telephone call between the first party and a second party, establishing a third-party connection with the first party and the second party, receiving the telephone call, and storing the content of the telephone call in memory for subsequent delivery or retrieval.
1. A method for recording a telephone call in a central archiving facility, comprising the steps of:
a) commencing recordation of a telephone call at a central archiving facility;
b) monitoring the telephone call to detect the end of the call;
c) determining whether encryption of the content of the telephone call is required based upon information obtained through a database query conducted by the archiving facility relating to the telephone call originator;
d) encrypting the content of the telephone call if encryption is required;
e) storing the content of the telephone call at the central archiving facility upon completion of the call; and
f) providing access to the content of the telephone call by the telephone call originator over a distributed computing network.
2. A method for recording a telephone call in a central archiving facility according to claim 1 , wherein access to the content of the telephone call is provided through a web browser.
3. A method for recording a telephone call in a central archiving facility according to claim 1 , wherein access to the content of the telephone call is provided through a file transfer protocol.