Patent ID: 8547831

Claim:
A method of automatically rerouting logical circuit data, the method comprising: selecting a logical failover circuit comprising an alternate communication path for communicating data upon a failure of a dedicated logical circuit connecting a host device to a remote device to communicate the data to originate and terminate at the host device and the remote device; when a first logical circuit identifier of the dedicated logical circuit does not match a second logical circuit identifier of the logical failover circuit: renaming the second logical circuit identifier of the logical failover circuit to identify the logical failover circuit using the first logical circuit identifier of the dedicated logical circuit when the logical failover circuit is a dedicated logical failover circuit used to communicate only when the dedicated logical circuit fails, and renaming the dedicated logical circuit to identify the dedicated logical circuit using the second logical circuit identifier of the logical failover circuit when the logical failover circuit is used to communicate regardless of the failure of the dedicated logical circuit; and rerouting the data to the logical failover circuit without manual intervention.