Establishing and managing connections for real time communications

A device comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the device to:
• receive, by a first computing device of one or more computing devices and from a caller device, a request to establish a communication channel between the caller device and a callee device;
• establish, by the first computing device and based on the request, the communication channel, wherein stored information associated with the communication channel comprises at least:
• a caller Universal Resource Locator (URL) comprising an address of the caller device, and
• a callee URL comprising an address of the callee device;
• forward, by the first computing device to the callee device via the communication channel, a first message indicating the callee URL as a recipient of the first message;
• receive, by the first computing device and from the callee device, a reconnect message indicating a second callee URL comprising a second address of the callee device;
• update the stored information with the second callee URL;
• and
• forward, by a second computing device of the one or more computing devices and to the caller device based on the updated stored information, a second message comprising the second callee URL;
• wherein the stored information is accessed via a shared persistent database.

A system, comprising:

• a first computing device comprising memory storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the first computing device to:
• receive, from a caller device, a request to establish a communication channel between the caller device and a callee device;
• establish, based on the request, the communication channel, wherein stored information associated with the communication channel comprises at least:
• a caller Universal Resource Locator (URL) comprising an address of the caller device, and
• a callee URL comprising an address of the callee device;
• forward, via the communication channel, a first message indicating the callee URL as a recipient of the first message;
• receive, from the callee device, a reconnect message indicating a second callee URL comprising a second address of the callee device;
• update the stored information with the second callee URL;
• and
• a second computing device comprising memory storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the second computing device to:
• forward, to the caller device based on the updated stored information, a second message comprising the second callee URL;
• a persistent database allows for first and second computing devices to access the channel information for a channel.