Patent ID: 9516067
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A system for providing a unidirectional outage bypass for a hosted voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) private branch exchange (PBX) comprising: a client device or a group of client devices in communication with an outage monitoring system, the hosted VoIP PBX being hosted remote from the client device or the group of client devices, wherein: the outage monitoring system in communication with a bypass configuration system and in communication with one or more bypass enablers that act at the direction of the bypass configuration system, the one or more bypass enablers being one or more of software and hardware and being configured to intercept outgoing communications and perform interactions to reroute or forward the outgoing communications from the client device or the group of client devices to a public switched telephone network (PSTN) while bypassing the hosted VoIP PBX, wherein: