METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENABLING END-USER EQUIPMENT AT AN END-USER PREMISE TO EFFECT COMMUNICATIONS HAVING CERTAIN DESTINATIONS WHEN AN ABILITY OF THE END-USER EQUIPMENT TO COMMUNICATE VIA A COMMUNICATION LINK CONNECTING THE END-USER EQUIPMENT TO A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK IS DISRUPTED

摘要

A method for effecting communications, such as telephone calls, accesses todatanetwork sites (e.g., web sites), alarm system communications, and/or othercommunications, having certain destinations over a communications network. Themethod comprises: receiving a request for a communication originated by firstend-userequipment at a first end-user premise when an ability of the first end-userequipment to communicate via a first communication link connecting the firstend-userequipment to the communications network is disrupted; determining, based on adestination of the communication, that the communication is to be effectedover thecommunications network; and causing information pertaining to thecommunicationto be exchanged between the first end-user equipment and the communicationsnetwork via a wireless communication link established between the first end-userequipment and second end-user equipment at a second end-user premise and asecondcommunication link connecting the second end-user equipment to thecommunications network. Also provided are apparatus and computer-readablemediacontaining a program element executable by a computing system to perform suchamethod.