Patent ID: 7738360

Claim:
A first media gateway, comprising: a first communication information comprising: a first node identifier identifying a second media gateway, the first and second media gateways handling a common communication, the common communication involving an inter gateway connection between the first and second media gateways, the common communication involving a primary communication server, and the first node identifier being further associated with the common communication; a communication identifier identifying the first node identifier and the common communication, wherein the common communication is between a communication device in communication with the first media gateway and a second communication device in communication with the second media gateway; connection state information; termination property information; wherein the first communication information is sent to a second communication server to reestablish the common communication with the second communication device if the second media gateway fails, wherein reestablishing the common communication further comprises: retrieving the connection state and the termination property information; constructing a temporary communication map; saving termination property information with each termination in the map; and a reconstruction agent populating the temporary communication map to reconstruct the records for the primary communication server.