Patent ID: 7395057

Claim:
A method for reconnecting a dropped telephone connection between a calling party and a called party, said telephone connection having been established by a telephone call having been initially placed by the calling party to a primary number of the called party through a telephony server, thereby establishing an inbound call from the calling party to the server and an outbound call from the server to the called party, said method comprising: monitoring by the server the status of the inbound call; monitoring by the server the status of the outbound call; detecting by the server a situation where the status of the inbound call is active and the status of the outbound call is dropped; monitoring words used by the called party, the calling party, or both during the telephone connection to detect if one or more standard closing remarks are used in time proximity to the outbound call being dropped; and attempting by the server to reestablish the telephone connection with the called party only if said one or more standard closing remarks are not detected in time proximity to the outbound call being dropped.