US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Sept. 15 for "Methods and apparatus for lawful interception of communications" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,285, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and apparatus for lawful interception of communications" was invented by Girard Hoffpauir IV (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lawful intercept is supported by providing a network communications device target identifiers in encrypted form. Received encrypted target identifiers are stored in a non-volatile storage device. Before communications interception occurs, one or more encrypted target identifiers are loaded into active memory which is secure and not accessible by a network device operating system administrator. A de...