Ring-tone messaging service
First Claim
1. A communication method between communication devices, comprising:
- receiving, at a called communication device and as part of a call set-up message, at least one of a text, a picture, a video, and a holographic user message from a first user of a calling communication device, the message being associated with a pending call from the first user to a second user of the called communication device; and
before the call is answered by the second user, the called communication device extracting the at least one of a text, a picture, a video, and a holographic user message from the call set-up message and displaying said at least one of a text, a picture, a video, and a holographic user message for the second user.
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Abstract
An improved system and method to provide important information either, as voice, text, picture, holographic image or video from the calling party to a called party before the called party answers a telephone. The information may be a live or recorded voice, text, image or video message. The calling party may send a voice message, for example, and send it along with a call set-up message. The voice message may be recorded beforehand, recorded as part of the dialing process, or sent live before the call is answered. Instead of the called party'"'"'s telephone ringing, the recorded voice message is played or the real-time data/bearer stream is heard. The called party hears the voice message instead of the ring tone normally heard when there is an incoming telephone call. If the telephone is not answered, the calling party is sent to voicemail or mms-storage system, where the calling party is given the option to record a voice message which may or may not include the original recorded or live voice message sent along with the call set-up message. Alternatively if the called party has a follow me service, the other contact numbers are attempted as directed in the user preferences before sending the calling party to voicemail. If the calling and called party have telephones, such as mobile phones, IP phones, IP softphones, PDA with telephony capabilities, etc., which allow for multimedia messages such as text, images and video messages, the calling party'"'"'s recorded voice message may include text, images or video.
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53 Claims
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1. A communication method between communication devices, comprising:
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receiving, at a called communication device and as part of a call set-up message, at least one of a text, a picture, a video, and a holographic user message from a first user of a calling communication device, the message being associated with a pending call from the first user to a second user of the called communication device; and before the call is answered by the second user, the called communication device extracting the at least one of a text, a picture, a video, and a holographic user message from the call set-up message and displaying said at least one of a text, a picture, a video, and a holographic user message for the second user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 53)
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16. A communication method between communication devices, comprising:
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providing a calling communication device associated with a first party; and sending a call set-up message from the calling communication device to a called communication device associated with a second party, wherein the call set-up message comprises a recorded voice message from the first party to the second party and an alerting message to open a bearer channel from the calling communication device to the called communication device, the bearer channel being configured to receive a live voice message from the first party to the second party, whereby at least one of the recorded and live voice messages is played by the called communication device before a bi-directional communication path is established between the first and second parties. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 52)
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33. A communication device, comprising:
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memory; and a Ring Message Service (RMS) agent operable to receive, as part of a call set-up message, at least one of a text, picture, video, and holographic user message from a first user of a calling communication device, the message being associated with a pending call from the first user to a second user associated with a called communication device containing the RMS agent; and
, before the call is answered by the second user, to extract the at least one of a text, a picture, a video, and a holographic user message from the call set-up message and display said at least one of a text, a picture, a video, and a holographic user message for the second user. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. A communication device, comprising:
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memory; and a Ring Message Service (RMS) agent operable (a) to receive, from a first user associated with a calling communication device containing the RMS agent, at least one of a recorded and live voice message from the first party to a second party, the at least one of a recorded and live voice message being associated with a pending call from the first user to the second user associated with a called communication device and (b) send a call set-up message from the calling communication device to the called communication device, wherein the call set-up message comprises both (i) the at least one of a recorded and live voice message from the first party to the second party and (ii) an alerting message to open a bearer channel from the calling communication device to the called communication device, the bearer channel being configured to receive a voice message from the first party to the second party, whereby the at least one of a recorded and live voice message is played by the called communication device before a bi-directional communication path is established between the first and second parties. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
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