Patent ID: 8644811

Claim:
A method for facilitating a call session comprising: receiving a call connect message to establish the call session between a wireless phone and a remote phone; after the connection of the call session between the wireless phone and the remote phone, receiving, from the wireless phone, a user request requesting to selectively activate a feature for an important call session, wherein activation of the feature results in an assignment of the wireless phone to a call relay station configured to reestablish a call session to prevent a call drop during the important call session; in response to receiving the user request to selectively activate the feature, assigning the call session to a first call relay station, the first call relay station configured to reestablish the call session to prevent a call drop during the important call session; establishing, by the first call relay station, the call session between the wireless phone and the remote phone, the call session including a first wireless connection comprising a radio signal from the first call relay station to the wireless phone and a second connection from the first call relay station to the remote phone, the first call relay station being a gateway or a router; monitoring the first wireless connection for a connection loss of the first wireless connection; determining that the connection loss of the first wireless connection has occurred, and in response: holding, at the first call relay station, the second connection from the first call relay station to the remote phone; attempting to reestablish the first wireless connection with the wireless phone; and resuming the call session in response to the first wireless connection being reestablished by the first call relay station.