Patent ID: 8280961

Claim:
A method for providing a camp-on service for a network service, comprising: detecting, at a camp-on server, a plurality of requests from a plurality of users requesting access to a network service hosted by a network service server; detecting, at the camp-on server, that the network service is unavailable and that the plurality of requests will not be fulfilled; subscribing the user to a camp-on service for the network service at the camp-on server, wherein the user is automatically subscribed to the camp-on service by the camp-on server upon detecting that the network service is unavailable; detecting, at the camp-on server, that the network service is available; notifying each of the plurality of users from the camp-on server that the network service is available for each of the plurality of users to re-send their respective request; and receiving a re-sent request from at least one user of the plurality of users subscribed to the camp-on service.