Patent ID: 8730795

Claim:
A method of automatically rerouting logical circuit data, the method comprising: identifying a failure of a dedicated logical circuit connecting a host device to a remote device to communicate data that originates and terminates only at the host device and the remote device; when a first logical circuit identifier of the dedicated logical circuit does not match a second logical circuit identifier of a logical failover circuit comprising an alternate communication path for communicating the data: renaming the second logical circuit identifier of the logical failover circuit to identify the logical failover circuit using the first logical circuit identifier of the dedicated logical circuit when the logical failover circuit is a dedicated logical failover circuit used to communicate only when the dedicated logical circuit fails, and renaming the dedicated logical circuit to identify the dedicated logical circuit using the second logical circuit identifier of the logical failover circuit when the logical failover circuit is used to communicate regardless of the failure of the dedicated logical circuit; and rerouting the data to the logical failover circuit without manual intervention.