Apparatus and method for generating distinctive ringing according to caller

• US 20030017860A1
• Filed: 07/16/2002
• Published: 01/23/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Choi, Soo-Deok
• Application Number:
  US10/196,543
• Publication Number:
  US 20030017860A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/567
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/041 Encoding the ringing signal, i.e. providing distinctive or selective ringing capability

Abstract

An apparatus and method for generating distinctive ringing tones according to callers. A database stores the ID of a basic ringing group including telephone numbers for which the same ringing tones are generated and the ID of each ringing group including telephone numbers for which different ringing tones are generated. A CCF detects a caller telephone number upon incoming of a call, searches for the ringing group of the caller telephone number, and assigns the ID of the ringing group to the call. An RACF receives the call with the ringing group ID from the CCF and sets the ringing group ID in a paging message for the call.

Claims

1. A mobile communication system for informing an identity for ringing of a UE (User Equipment), comprising:

a database for storing the information of one or more caller(s) and its associated identity for ringing;

a CCF (Call Control Function) for searching for the identity for ringing corresponding to a caller in the database; and

a RACF(Radio Access Control Function) for transmitting a message including the searched identity

2. The identity for ringing of claim 1, wherein the identity for ringing is a ringing group ID.

3. The message of claim 1, wherein the message has an identity for ringing as a paging cause value to perform a ringing group service.

4. The CCF of claim 1, wherein the identity for ringing can be a default value when the CCF cannot search the identity for ringing.

5. A method for informing an identity for ringing of a UE (User Equipment), comprising the steps of:

storing the information of one or more caller(s) and its associated identity for ringing;

searching the identity for ringing corresponding to the caller in the database; and

transmitting a message including the searched identity

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the searching step further includes setting a default value when the identity for ringing cannot be searched.

7. A method of performing a ringing service in a mobile terminal, comprising the steps of:

checking a identity of ringing information in a message; and

generating ringing tones corresponding to the identity.