Patent ID: 7003286

Claim:
A method of connecting telephone participants to a telephone call, said method comprising: initiating a telephone call between a plurality of participants; receiving a plurality of voice inputs from the participants, wherein the voice inputs include voice data; storing the voice data in a memory area; determining that a disconnection of a line connecting one of the participants to the telephone call has occurred, resulting in a disconnected participant; identifying the disconnected participant; retrieving a disconnection address from a storage location in the memory area that corresponds to a time of the disconnection; storing an identifier corresponding to the disconnected participant and the disconnection address; receiving a rejoin request from the disconnected participant requesting to rejoin the telephone call; retrieving a portion of the voice data from the memory area that was stored after the time of the disconnection and before receiving the rejoin request; and transmitting the retrieved portion of the voice data to the disconnected participant.