SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALLING A PARTY TO SPECIFY A RING TONE USED BY A CALLED PARTY'S MOBILE PHONE
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- providing, from a first platform to a called party'"'"'s mobile phone, an operating system-level application, which application, in response to triggering information, causes a specified ring tone to be played by the called party'"'"'s mobile phone;
providing, from a second platform to the called party'"'"'s mobile phone, the specified ring tone;
a calling party placing a call to the called party'"'"'s mobile phone, the call having associated therewith the triggering information; and
in response to receipt of the triggering information at the called party'"'"'s mobile phone, playing the specified ring tone.
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Abstract
A calling party is permitted to determine a ring tone to be played by a called party'"'"'s mobile phone. Upon receiving an indication of the called party telephone number and a ring tone to be pushed to the called party'"'"'s handset, the calling party is placed on hold on a conference bridge. The subject ring tone and a designated ANI are transmitted to the called party'"'"'s handset. Thereafter, an outbound call is placed to the called party'"'"'s handset such that a ringing signal transmitted to the called party'"'"'s handset includes the designated ANI. When a connection is established with the called party'"'"'s handset, the outbound call is bridged with the calling party'"'"'s call on the conference bridge. Alternatively, in some instances, calls may be place directly from the calling party to the called party along with an indication of a ring tone to be played.
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1. A method, comprising:
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providing, from a first platform to a called party'"'"'s mobile phone, an operating system-level application, which application, in response to triggering information, causes a specified ring tone to be played by the called party'"'"'s mobile phone; providing, from a second platform to the called party'"'"'s mobile phone, the specified ring tone; a calling party placing a call to the called party'"'"'s mobile phone, the call having associated therewith the triggering information; and in response to receipt of the triggering information at the called party'"'"'s mobile phone, playing the specified ring tone. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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- 14. A method, comprising upon receiving from a calling party an indication of a called party to which a call is to be placed, determining whether or not a ring tone associated with the call is already stored on a handset to which the call is to be placed, and, if so, placing the call to the handset using an ANI associated with the stored ring tone, otherwise, transmitting the ring tone to a mobile phone telephone number associated with the handset and placing a call to the mobile phone telephone number after a time period sufficient to allow the ring tone to be stored by the handset using the ANI associated with the ring tone.
- 16. A method, comprising playing a specified ring tone by a mobile phone of a called party in response to receipt of an Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) message, wherein the specified ring tone is selected by someone other than the called party and downloaded, in response to the selection, to the called party'"'"'s mobile phone prior to receipt of the USSD message.
- 22. A method, comprising downloading an operating system level application to a calling party'"'"'s mobile phone, and responsive to initiating the application on the calling party'"'"'s mobile phone, determining whether a call to a called party'"'"'s mobile phone should result in a pushed ring tone being played by the called party'"'"'s mobile phone.
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