Patent ID: 8023406

Claim:
A method for changing routing of data transmitted from a mobile electronic device to a first host of a plurality of hosts in a communication network using a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), such that said communication network is enabled to transmit and relay data to one of a number of given hosts sharing a given address, the method implementable in at least one network element and comprising: determining that said first host has failed via receipt of BGP rerouted data, said BGP rerouted data originally intended for said first host, said at least one network element having a same address as said first host; and transmitting a negative acknowledgement (NACK) to said mobile electronic device, said NACK enabled to trigger said mobile electronic device to transmit data that was to be transmitted to said first host to another of said plurality of hosts and wherein said NACK is identifiable by said mobile electronic device as having been transmitted by said at least one network element.