Okla. Stat. tit. 13, § 13-177.1

As used in Sections 177.1 through 177.5 of this title and

Section 3 of this act:

1. "Court of competent jurisdiction" means a court of general

criminal jurisdiction of this state, including the judges of the

district court, associate district judges and special district

judges, or any justice of the Supreme Court or judge of the Court of

Criminal Appeals or Court of Civil Appeals;

2. "Electronic communication" means any transfer of signs,

signals, writing, images, sounds, data or intelligence of any nature

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transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electro-magnetic,

photo-electronic or photo-optical system, but does not include:

a. any wire or oral communication,

b. any communication made through a tone-only paging

device, or

c. any communication from a tracking device;

3. "Pen register" means a device which records or decodes

electronic or other impulses which identify the numbers dialed or

otherwise transmitted on the telephone line to which such device is

attached, but such term does not include any device used by a

provider or customer of a wire or electronic communication service

for billing, or recording as an incident to billing, for

communications services provided by such provider or any device used

by a provider or customer of a wire communication service for cost

accounting or other like purposes in the ordinary course of its

business;

4. “Tracking device” means an electronic or mechanical device

which permits the tracking of the movement of a person or object;

5. "Trap and trace device" means a device which captures the

incoming electronic or other impulses which identify the originating

number of an instrument or device from which a wire or electronic

communication was transmitted, but does not include devices used by

subscribers to identify the originating numbers of calls received by

such subscribers; and

6. "Wire communication" means any aural transfer made in whole

or in part through the use of facilities for the transmission of

communications by the aid of wire, cable or other like connection

between the point of origin and the point of reception, including

the use of such connection in a switching station furnished or

operated by any person engaged in providing or operating such

facilities for the transmission of intrastate, interstate or foreign

communications or communications affecting intrastate, interstate or

foreign commerce.