IP Library Granted Patent US 8,755,780
Granted Patent B2
US 8,755,780 · App. 13/354,410 · Granted Jun 17, 2014

Apparatus, and associated method, for reconnecting dropped call

Inventors: Eric Martin Ritter (Waterloo, CA); Brian Alexander Oliver (Fergus, CA); Joseph Patrick Thomas Goguen (Los Gatos, CA); Richard John George (Waterloo, CA)
Assignee: Blackberry Limited
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Patent No.
US 8,755,780
App. No.
13/354,410
Granted
Jun 17, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

An apparatus, and an associated method, reconnects a communication party, such as a wireless device, into a call connection responsive to detection of a call connection drop of an ongoing communication session. A detector detects a call connection drop of an ongoing communication session. And, responsive to the detection, the connection is automatically reinitiated.

Claims (25)

1. A wireless communication device, comprising:

a control circuit configured to detect a dropped conference call due to unintentional call termination; and

responsive to the detection, the control circuit further configured to automatically reinitiate connection of the dropped conference call by using conference call information accessed from calendar information relating to the dropped conference call.

2. The wireless communication device of claim 1 wherein the control circuit is further configured to detect a normal call termination comprising a remotely-initiated normal call termination.

3. The wireless communication device of claim 1 wherein the control circuit is further configured to detect a normal call termination comprising a locally-initiated normal call termination.

4. The wireless communication device of claim 1 wherein the control circuit is configured to reinitiate connection of the dropped conference call responsive to a network-acceptability level exceeding a threshold.

5. The wireless communication device of claim 1 wherein the control circuit is configured to reinitiate connection of the dropped conference call using last-entered dialing digits if the dropped conference call was a locally-originated conference call.

6. The wireless communication device of claim 1 wherein the control circuit is configured to reinitiate connection of the dropped conference call using last-received dialing digits if the dropped conference call was a remotely-originated conference call.

7. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein the conference call is made by way of a conference bridge and wherein the control circuit is configured to automatically reinitiate connection of the dropped conference call by way of the conference bridge.

8. The wireless communication device of claim 1 wherein the calendar information comprises information retrieved from a calendar and stored in temporal proximity to a time of the dropped conference call.

9. The wireless communication device of claim 7 wherein the control circuit is configured to send a network-terminated request to request a network-initiated call to the conference bridge.

10. The wireless communication device of claim 7 wherein the control circuit is configured to send a network-terminated data request to request a network-initiated call to the conference bridge, the network-initiated call including an indication that the network-initiated call is to reinitiate connection of the dropped conference call.

11. A method for facilitating a conference call reconnection, said method comprising:

detecting a dropped conference call in response to detecting unintentional call termination; and

responsive to detecting the dropped conference call, automatically reinitiating connection of the dropped conference call by using conference call information accessed from calendar information relating to the dropped conference call.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein said automatically reinitiating comprises reinitiating the connection of the dropped conference call using last-entered dialing digits if the dropped call was a locally-originated conference call.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein said automatically reinitiating comprises reinitiating the connection of the dropped conference call using last-received dialing digits if the dropped call was a remotely-originated conference call.

14. The method of claim 11 wherein the conference call is made by way of a conference bridge and wherein said automatically reinitiating connection of the dropped conference call comprises automatically reinitiating connection into the conference call by way of the conference bridge.

15. An apparatus for facilitating a conference call reconnection, said apparatus comprising:

a detector configured to detect a network-terminated request to request a network initiated call to reinitiate formation of a conference call connection, the network-terminated request generated in response to detection of a drop of the conference call connection by detecting unintentional call termination; and

a call reinitiation requestor configured to request reinitiation of the conference call connection, by using conference call information accessed from calendar information relating to the dropped conference call, responsive to detection made by said detector.

16. The wireless communication device of claim 1 , wherein:

the control circuit is further configured to detect the dropped conference call during a call state; and

the control circuit is further configured to preserve the call state at formation of the conference call connection.

17. The wireless communication device of claim 16 , wherein the call state comprises a muted call connected over a Bluetooth audio path.

Assignments (6)
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Jun 19, 2023
From: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
To: MALIKIE INNOVATIONS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 064271/0199 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 16, 2023
From: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
To: MALIKIE INNOVATIONS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 064104/0103 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Apr 25, 2014
From: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
To: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
Reel/Frame 032764/0432 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 11, 2012
From: RESEARCH IN MOTION CORPORATION
To: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
Reel/Frame 028357/0058 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 23, 2012
From: RITTER, ERIC MARTIN; OLIVER, BRIAN ALEXANDER; GEORGE, RICHARD JOHN
To: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
Reel/Frame 028086/0925 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 23, 2012
From: GOGUEN, JOSEPH PATRICK THOMAS
To: RESEARCH IN MOTION CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 028086/0971 →
Continuity (1)
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