Patent ID: 8638781

Claim:
A method for preserving session state in telephony messaging comprising: at a telephony platform, initializing a communication session with a telephony communication between a telephony device and an application server; at a call router of the telephony platform, communicating the communication session over a telephony protocol to the telephony device and communicating the communication session over HTTP protocol to the application server; at the telephony platform, storing session state that uniquely identifies the communication session of the telephony device and the application server; at the call router, transmitting the stored session state in subsequent communications of the communication session with the application server; communicating a tracking link to a user access destination in response to initiation by the application server, wherein a tracking link is a link to a resource and the tracking link is unique to the communication session; and associating access of the resource through the tracking link with the session state of the communication session.