METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RINGBACK TONE REPLACEMENT WITH DOWNLOADED AUDIO FILES

• US 20110150204A1
• Filed: 06/28/2009
• Published: 06/23/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sellaring, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Sellaring, Ltd.
• Inventors: Halachmi, Zohar
• Granted Patent: US 8,503,659 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/207.16
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/8044 Least cost routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/0192 Sponsored, subsidised calls via advertising, e.g. calling cards with ads or connecting to special ads, free calling time by purchasing goods
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2215/7886 Apply cheapest or best package, e.g. selection among available tariffs or packages least cost routing H04M2215/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42017 Customized ring-back tones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4878 Advertisement messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/129 Details of providing call progress tones or announcements

Abstract

A method for network maintenance and supervision of an on-board controlled audio agent, the method constituted of: providing a plurality of audio portions, each of the provided audio portions being selected responsive to user descriptive data associated with a call initiator; providing a reimbursement rule associated with each of the audio portions; selecting, for each call instance, a particular one of the plurality of audio portions responsive to the determined reimbursement rules; and outputting the particular one of the plurality of audio portions at each call instance initiation such that at least a portion of the particular audio portion is heard by the call initiator prior to call connection.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A system for on-board supervision of a controlled audio portion comprising:

a controlled audio agent on-board a telephone;

an audio portion storage associated with said controlled audio agent, said audio portion storage exhibiting a plurality of audio portions stored thereon; and

a data communication module communicating via a network,

said data communication module arranged to download said plurality of audio portions from via said network,

said controlled audio agent arranged to;

select, for each call instance initiated by said telephone, a particular one of said stored plurality of audio portions; and

output said selected particular one of said stored plurality of audio portions at said call instance initiation such that at least a portion of said selected particular audio portion is heard by a call initiator prior to call connection.