Patent ID: 7603115

Claim:
A method for restoring communications through breaks in wireless coverage, comprising: identifying a coverage gap in a wireless coverage area; notifying system users of the existence of a coverage gap; requesting a callee from among the system users to hold during the coverage gap; offering the callee access to a voicemail of a caller from among the system users when the callee is unwilling to hold during the coverage gap; and reconnecting parties upon exiting the coverage gap; wherein the step of identifying a coverage gap includes: observing, by an infrastructure of a communication system to which the caller is subscribed, patterns of movement over time by the caller; and making predictions, by the infrastructure, of a route of travel of a current trip by the caller based on file observed patterns of movement over time; wherein the step of identifying a coverage gap further includes: recording a time and a base station from which a cell phone off the caller loses coverage; recording a time and a base station to which the cell phone of the caller resumes coverage; repeating said recording steps with respect to a plurality of different base stations; calculating a range of gap lengths based on the plurality of different base stations; averaging the gap lengths in the range of gap lengths; and specifying to the callee an average gap length based on a result of said averaging step.