Patent ID: 8825024

Claim:
A method of completing a call attempt made by a first party to a second party, comprising: detecting a failure of completion of said call attempt made by said first party on a first network to contact said second party on a second network, wherein said second network is one of said first network and one of a plurality of networks excluding the first network; completing the call attempt, comprising the steps of: communicating availability of a messaging service to the first party from either the first network or the second network; receiving an explicit or implicit action from the first party indicating one of an acceptance of said messaging service and a declination of said messaging service, further comprising: receiving a message created by the first party for delivery to the second party on said acceptance of said messaging service; detecting one of said acceptance of said messaging service and said declination of said messaging service based on one of an explicit dual tone multi frequency input by the first party, and an implicit predefined timeout period; and delivering one of said created message and a missed call notification to the second party on the second network or taking no action based on one of said acceptance of said messaging service and said declination of said messaging service; whereby the call attempt made by the first party to the second party is completed.