US 6,865,604 C1 (0104th)
METHOD FOR EXTRACTING A COMPUTER NETWORK-BASED TELEPHONE SESSION PERFORMED THROUGH A COMPUTER NETWORK
Mordechai Nisani, Guildford, United Kingdom, and Eitan Bar, Even Yehuda, Israel, assignors to STS Systems Ltd., Ra'Anana, Israel
Reexamination Request No. 95/000,297, Sep. 12, 2007.
Reexamination Certificate for Patent 6,865,604, issued Mar. 8, 2005, Appl. No. 962,677, Oct. 13, 2004.
Continuation of application No. 09/664,755, filed on Sep. 19, 2000, now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of application No. 09/140,453, filed on Aug. 26, 1998, now Pat. No. 6,122,665.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16;15/173 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 709—224
OG exemplary drawing
AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT:
Claims 1-8 are cancelled.
New Claims 9 and 10 are added and determined to be patentable.
9. A method for monitoring data packets transmitted across a computer network to one or more destination IP addresses associated with respective terminals in order to extract a computer network-based telephone session that has been performed through the computer network for display in response to a request, comprising the steps of:
(a) analyzing data within the data packets that are transmitted on the computer network to select one or more data packets that contain audio data, video data, or audio and video data;
(b) identifying data packets that are associated with the one or more destination IP addresses representing sessions to be monitored;
(c) storing the audio data, video data, or audio and video data contained in the identified data packets;
(d) organizing the audio data, video data, or audio and video data contained in the identified data packets into a specific telephone session based at least in part on a computer network-based telephone session to which the data packets belong; and
(e) outputting the audio data, the video data, or the audio and video data that is included in the organized data packets upon receipt of a signal representing the request of a user for the specific telephone session.