METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR CONVEYING AN AUDIO STREAM TO A USER OF A COMMUNICATION DEVICE DURING AN OUTGOING CALL
First Claim
1. A method implemented by a communication device comprising:
- determining an audio stream to convey to a user of the communication device during establishment of an outgoing call;
initiating conveyance of the audio stream from an audio stream source that broadcasts the audio stream to the user of the communication device in response to detecting an initiation of a call to a destination device by the user of the communication device; and
terminating conveyance of the audio stream to the user of the communication device prior to or substantially simultaneous with the establishment of the call between the communication device and the destination device.
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Abstract
The present invention discloses numerous implementations for conveying an audio element to a source device initiating an outgoing call while a user of the source device is waiting for a user of a destination device to answer the call. A call processing system receives a call request message from the source device, determines an audio element from a plurality of audio elements to convey to the source device and initiates conveyance of the audio element to the source device in response to receiving the call request message. The system then causes establishment of a media connection between the source and destination devices and terminates conveyance of the audio element to the source device prior to or substantially simultaneous with the establishment of the media connection between the source and destination devices. In various implementations, the source device may be implemented within the PSTN and/or an IP network. The audio element may comprise an audio file, an audio stream, scheduling information or other audio content. A subscriber associated with the source device may pre-configure the selection of the audio element to be conveyed in replace of the traditional ring tone. A communication device may also implement a method to convey an audio element to a user of the communication device during establishment of an outgoing call.
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47 Claims
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1. A method implemented by a communication device comprising:
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determining an audio stream to convey to a user of the communication device during establishment of an outgoing call; initiating conveyance of the audio stream from an audio stream source that broadcasts the audio stream to the user of the communication device in response to detecting an initiation of a call to a destination device by the user of the communication device; and terminating conveyance of the audio stream to the user of the communication device prior to or substantially simultaneous with the establishment of the call between the communication device and the destination device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A communication device comprising:
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a network interface operable to be coupled to a network over which the communication device may initiate a call to a destination device and the communication device may connect to an audio stream source; a processing entity operable to determine an audio stream to convey to a user of the communication device during establishment of an outgoing call;
to initiate conveyance of the audio stream from an audio stream source that broadcasts the audio stream to the user of the communication device in response to detecting an initiation of a call to a destination device by the user of the communication device; and
to terminate conveyance of the audio stream to the user of the communication device prior to or substantially simultaneous with the establishment of the call between the communication device and the destination device. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46)
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47. Computer-readable media containing a program element executable by a communication device, the computer-readable media comprising:
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first program code for determining an audio stream to convey to a user of the communication device during establishment of an outgoing call; second program code for initiating conveyance of the audio stream from an audio stream source that broadcasts the audio stream to the user of the communication device in response to detecting an initiation of a call to a destination device by the user of the communication device; and third program code for terminating conveyance of the audio stream to the user of the communication device prior to or substantially simultaneous with the establishment of the call between the communication device and the destination device.
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