Dropped call continuation
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1. A method of reestablishing a communications connection, comprising:
- associating terminal translations of a communication terminal of one of a first party and a second party, with a communication virtual terminal;
associating the communication virtual terminal with a first communication connection between the first party and the second party;
detecting that the first party is dropped from the first connection;
in response to the detecting, establishing a second communication connection between the first party and the virtual terminal;
combining the first and the second communication connections to reestablish a communication connection between the first party and the second party; and
associating contents of a call record of the first connection with the reestablished connection.
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Abstract
A switching system adjunct (120) monitors a call between a calling and a called party and reestablishes the call when one of the parties has been or is being dropped. The reestablishment may be effected to a same or a different phone number of the dropped party, and may be effected via the same or a different medium (e.g., wired or wireless). The call record of the original call is merged into the call record of the reestablished call, thus preserving the context of entities involved in the call that exists at the time that the party is dropped.
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1. A method of reestablishing a communications connection, comprising:
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associating terminal translations of a communication terminal of one of a first party and a second party, with a communication virtual terminal; associating the communication virtual terminal with a first communication connection between the first party and the second party; detecting that the first party is dropped from the first connection; in response to the detecting, establishing a second communication connection between the first party and the virtual terminal; combining the first and the second communication connections to reestablish a communication connection between the first party and the second party; and associating contents of a call record of the first connection with the reestablished connection. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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22. A method of reestablishing a communication connection, comprising:
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associating terminal translations of a communication terminal of one of a first party and a second party with a communication virtual terminal; establishing a first communication connection between a first party and a communication virtual terminal; establishing a second communication connection between the virtual terminal and a second party; combining the first and the second connections to establish a third communication connection between the first and the second parties; monitoring the third connection by the virtual terminal; detecting by the monitoring that one of the first and the second parties is dropped from the third connection; establishing a fourth communication connection between the virtual terminal and the one party; combining the fourth connection with the connection between the virtual terminal and the other of the first and the second parties to reestablish a communication connection between the first and the second parties; and associating contents of a call record of the third connection with the reestablished connection. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24)
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39. An apparatus for reestablishing a communication connection comprising:
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a communication virtual terminal associated with a first communication connection between a first party and a second party, the communication virtual terminal having terminal translations of a communication terminal of one of the first party and the second party associated with the communication virtual terminal; a detector of the first party being dropped from the first connection; an establisher of a second communication connection between the first party and the second party; a combiner of the first and the second communication connections for reestablishing a communication connection between the first party and the second party; and an associator of contents of a call record of the first communication connection with the reestablished communication connection. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70)
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58. An apparatus for reestablishing a communication connection, comprising:
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a virtual terminal for monitoring a third communication connection to detect a party dropping from the third connection; a mapper of the virtual terminal to one of a first party and a second party, the mapper being adapted to associate terminal translations of a communication terminal of the one of the parties with the virtual terminal; an establisher of communication connections for establishing a first communication connection between the virtual terminal and the first party and a second communication connection between the virtual terminal and the second party; a combiner of the first and the second connections to establish the third connection between the first and the second parties;
whereinthe establisher is adapted to respond to detection by the virtual terminal of one of the first and second parties dropping from the third connection by establishing a fourth communication connection between the virtual terminal and the one party, and the combiner is adapted to combine the fourth connection with the connection between the virtual terminal and the other of the first and the second parties to reestablish a communication connection between the first and the second parties; and the apparatus further comprising an associator of contents of a call record of the third connection with the reestablished connection. - View Dependent Claims (71, 72, 73)
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