Flexible ring-tone service

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2007-06-19

2007-06-19

Singh, Ramnandan (Department: 2614)

Telephonic communications

Supervisory or control line signaling

Signal reception at substation

C379S215010

Reexamination Certificate

active

10216781

ABSTRACT:
A subscriber associates a ring-tone media selection based on a media genre, author, or title to a calling number. When an incoming call is detected, a particular ring-tone media selection, based on the subscriber's association, may be streamed from a central server to the subscriber's customer premises equipment and then played. Alternatively, when an incoming call is detected, a particular ring-tone selection indicator, based on the subscriber's association, may be sent from a central server to the subscriber's customer premises equipment which then plays a pre-stored ring-tone selection media associated with the indicator.

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