Method and apparatus for enabling call originator to select a notification on a telecommunications device
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1. A system comprising:
- a notification insertion logic to send a notification that is selected by a caller for a recipient, wherein the caller selected notification announces an incoming call to the recipient, identifies the caller to the recipient, and comprises one or more of a photo, animation, graphic, audio data, multimedia data or video data;
a call router in a server to send a message to a recipient device notifying the recipient of the caller selected notification; and
the call router in the server further to receive an acknowledgement from a notification verification logic in the recipient device indicating that the recipient device does not already have the caller selected notification stored in memory, and the notification insertion logic to deliver the caller-selected notification to the recipient device in response to receiving the acknowledgement, wherein if the delivery does not finish before a preset period has elapsed, playing a normal ringtone by the recipient device, and finishing delivery of the caller-selected notification onto the recipient device for storage by the recipient device for future use.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing a call originator to select a notification a recipient sees or hears accompanying an incoming call.
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1. A system comprising:
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a notification insertion logic to send a notification that is selected by a caller for a recipient, wherein the caller selected notification announces an incoming call to the recipient, identifies the caller to the recipient, and comprises one or more of a photo, animation, graphic, audio data, multimedia data or video data; a call router in a server to send a message to a recipient device notifying the recipient of the caller selected notification; and the call router in the server further to receive an acknowledgement from a notification verification logic in the recipient device indicating that the recipient device does not already have the caller selected notification stored in memory, and the notification insertion logic to deliver the caller-selected notification to the recipient device in response to receiving the acknowledgement, wherein if the delivery does not finish before a preset period has elapsed, playing a normal ringtone by the recipient device, and finishing delivery of the caller-selected notification onto the recipient device for storage by the recipient device for future use. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method comprising:
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enabling a caller to select a notification for a particular recipient device, wherein the caller-selected notification identifies the caller to a recipient and comprises one or more of a photo, animation, graphic, audio data, multimedia data or video data; sending, by the server, a message to the recipient device notifying the recipient of the caller-selected notification; and delivering, by the server, the caller-selected notification via a mobile communication network to the recipient device in response to receiving an acknowledgement message from the recipient device, wherein the acknowledgement message indicates that the recipient device does not already have the caller-selected notification identifying the caller, wherein when the delivery does not finish before a preset period has elapsed, the recipient device uses another ringtone, and the caller-selected notification is stored by the recipient device for future use. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A device of a recipient of a call comprising:
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a notification verification logic module to receive a message that a caller originated notification is available, to determine whether the device already has the caller originated notification identifying the caller in memory, to send an acknowledgement that indicates that the recipient device does not already have the caller originated notification stored in memory, and to initiate download of the caller-selected notification; a memory to store caller originated notifications sent by a caller to the device of the recipient for future use when the device receives a call from the caller, wherein the caller originated notifications comprises one or more of a photo, animation, graphic, audio data, multimedia data or video data; and a notification selector to select a notification to use, when the recipient device receives the call, the notification selector to determine whether there is a caller originated notification associated with the call, and if so, using the caller originated notification to announce the call and to identify the caller to the call recipient, if the caller originated notification has not completed download within a preset period of time the notification selector to select another notification. - View Dependent Claims (21)
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22. A system comprising:
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an interface to enable a caller to specify a notification to be used when the caller places a call to a recipient, wherein the specified notification announces the call to the recipient and identifies the caller to the recipient; a notification insertion logic coupled to the interface to send the specified notification to a call router; a call router coupled to the notification insertion logic to send a message to a recipient device notifying the recipient of the specified notification, and to receive an acknowledgement from the recipient device, wherein the acknowledgement indicates that the recipient device does not already have the specified notification; and a notification verification logic in the recipient device to determine whether the recipient device already has the specified notification stored in memory, to send an acknowledge when the specified is not stored in memory and to send a rejection when the specified notification is stored in memory, and to initiate download of the caller-selected notification, wherein if the download does not finish before a preset period has elapsed, playing a normal ringtone and finishing download of the caller-selected notification onto the recipient device to store for future use.
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