Patent ID: 8634534

Claim:
A method for call recovery, the method comprising: determining a recovery rule for a call having a first communicative connection with a first device and a second communicative connection with a second device, wherein the recovery rule is a dynamic recovery rule and wherein determining the recovery rule for the call comprises (a) determining that a failover device is a highest priority failover device that is (1) available and (2) within a predetermined proximity of a switch upon which the call is terminated, and (b) determining that the recovery rule is that the failover device will build a new communicative connection with the switch responsive to a call failure event so that the failover device is connected on a call with the second device; identifying, based on the recovery rule, the failover device for the call; sending the recovery rule to the failover device; and building, responsive to the call failure event, the new communicative connection with the failover device based on the recovery rule.