Patent ID: 7830863

Claim:
An apparatus for providing call continuity for a telephony call between a first party and a second party, the first party participating in the call using a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) terminal, the apparatus comprising: a quality monitor adapted to assessing a plurality of quality measures for internet protocol (IP) packet traffic associated with the VoIP terminal; a threshold detector adapted to comparing a plurality of quality trend indicators derived from the plurality of quality measures with a plurality of predetermined thresholds to detect a threshold crossing event; a call manager adapted to, responsive to the threshold crossing event, originating a new call leg to a target terminal selected from one or more target terminals associated with the first party but providing connectivity to the first party through an infrastructure different to the VoIP terminal, and bridging the new call leg with the call to the second party and releasing a call leg to the VoIP terminal to maintain continuity between the first party and the second party; and a target selector adapted to selecting the target terminal to be used to bridge the call to the first party from the one or more target terminals associated with the first party pre-stored in a database.