Patent ID: 7613136

Claim:
A method for implementing communications re-connection services, comprising: detecting a communications session between at least two devices, one of the at least two devices is a calling device that establishes the communication session by calling another of the at least two devices; determining whether a disconnection for the communications session occurring between the at least two devices is voluntary; and automatically attempting to re-establish the communications session between the at least two devices if results of the determining indicate that the disconnection was involuntary, an involuntary disconnection resulting from at least one of: a signal interruption; a device malfunction; and an out of area signal; wherein the calling device and the other of the at least two devices receive communications services from competing service provider enterprises and the service provider enterprise representing the calling device performs the automatic attempt to re-establish the communications session, the method farther comprising: repeating the attempting to re-establish the communications session if previous attempts are unsuccessful, the repeating performed by at least one of the competing service provider enterprises, and wherein repeating the attempts to re-establish the communications session continues until a time-out value has been reached, the time-out value including at least one of: a maximum number of attempts to re-connect; and a maximum period of time in attempting to re-connect.