Method for playing a personalized clip

• US 8,467,501 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2006
• Issued: 06/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: WSOU Investments, LLC (WSOU Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel-Lucent SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Litteaut, Jacques, Coulon, Stephane
• Primary Examiner(s): SING, SIMON P
• Application Number:
  US11/529,233
• Publication Number:
  US 20070121922A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,454 Days
• Field of Search: 379/88.22, 379/76, 379/87
• US Class Current: 379/76
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/80 Telephone line holding circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/4285 Notifying, informing or entertaining a held party while on hold, e.g. Music On Hold

Abstract

A method of playing a personalized clip offers a choice between a clip played locally by a device associated with a terminal of a calling party and a clip played remotely by a device associated with a terminal of a called party when the calling party'"'"'s terminal is put on hold by the called party'"'"'s terminal. It includes a step of interrogating the first terminal to determine if the clip must be played locally in the network to which the first terminal belongs or if the clip must be played remotely in the network to which the second terminal belongs.

Claims

1. A method of playing a personalized clip when a first terminal is put on hold by a second terminal, the method comprising:

interrogating said first terminal to determine if said clip must be played locally in a network to which said first terminal belongs or if said clip must be played remotely in a network to which said second terminal belongs; and

playing said clip according to the determination.

2. A method according to claim 1, further comprising:

interrogating said first terminal in order to determine if said clip must be played in said first terminal or if said clip must be played in a server belonging to said network to which said first terminal belongs, if said clip must be played locally in a network to which said first terminal belongs.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein, if said clip must be played remotely in a network to which said second terminal belongs, said clip is played in said second terminal.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein, if said clip must be played remotely in a network to which said second terminal belongs, said clip is played in a server belonging to said network to which said second terminal belongs.

5. A telecommunication terminal, configured to:

store an option to be applied if said terminal is put on hold by another terminal, the option indicating that a clip must be played locally in said terminal or that a clip must be played remotely in a network to which said other terminal that is putting the terminal concerned on hold belongs;

receive a message indicating to said terminal that it has been put on hold;

respond to said message, indicating the option stored in said terminal; and

play a clip in said terminal if said predetermined option is that a clip must be played locally in said terminal.

6. The telecommunication terminal of claim 5, further configured to play a clip in said terminal if said predetermined option is that a clip must be played locally in said terminal.

7. The telecommunication terminal of claim 5, further configured to command the playing of a clip in a server belonging to the same network as the terminal concerned if the option is that a clip must be played locally in the network to which the terminal concerned belongs.

8. A telecommunication terminal configured to:

send to another terminal a message informing it that this other terminal has been put on hold;

receive a response indicating a predetermined option stored in this other terminal to be applied if the other terminal is put on hold, the option indicating that a clip must be played locally in said other terminal or that a clip must be played remotely if said other terminal is put on hold; and

playing said clip according to the response.

9. The telecommunication terminal of claim 8, further configured to read a clip in the terminal concerned if said predetermined option is that a clip must be played remotely.

10. The telecommunication terminal of claim 8, further configured to command the playing of a clip in a server belonging to the same network as the terminal concerned if said option is that a clip must be played remotely.