Patent ID: 7275192

Claim:
A method for on demand selective rerouting of logical circuit data in a data network, the method comprising: identifying a failed logical circuit in the data network; displaying at least one logical failover circuit for rerouting data from the identified failed logical circuit, wherein displaying at least one logical failover circuit for rerouting data from the failed logical circuit comprises generating a menu displaying the at least one logical failover circuit for selection; receiving a selection of a logical failover circuit from the displayed at least one logical failover circuit; (a) determining whether a utilization of the selected logical failover circuit exceeds a threshold utilization indicative of congestion susceptibility; (b) if the utilization is less than the threshold utilization, then rerouting the logical circuit data from the failed logical circuit to the selected logical failover circuit; (c) if the utilization exceeds the threshold utilization, then requesting the selection of an alternative logical failover circuit from the menu; and rerouting the data from the failed logical circuit to the selected logical failover circuit.