677 results about "Ring back tone" patented technology

The present invention provides a method of communicating with at least a calling party and at least a called party. The method includes receiving information indicative of an incoming call from the calling party, accessing context information associated with the called party in response to receiving the information indicative of the incoming call, and providing a ring-back tone based on the context information associated with the called party.

Disclosed are systems and methods for providing ring back tones in a communication network. At first, a ring back tone device for storing and playing the ring back tone customized by a subscriber is established in the communication network. Whether a subscriber is a ring back tone service register subscriber is judged with a certain triggering mode, such as intelligent network triggering, signaling interception triggering, call forwarding triggering or switching device triggering. If it is judged the subscriber is a ring back tone service registered subscriber, a connection between the originating switching device and the terminating switching device and a connection between a switching device and the ring back tone device are established. When the called terminal is idle, the ring back tone device provides a piece of customized ring back tone to the calling subscriber for replacing traditional ring back tone.

A caller may set his telephone's substitute ringback tone to be identical to that of the receiver or to that of a third party. Further, a caller may provide a substitute ringback tone to another recipient as a present. A substitute ringback tone playing server in the system checks whether there is a certain key input or key input stream from the caller requesting of bringing substitute ringback tone of the called party. Responding to the request, a bringing server sets the substitute ringback tone code of the caller stored in a playing control server as that of the called party. A user interface server allows a user to select a substitute ringback tone among multiple tones stored in a database to give to another person as a present.

A method for controlling the sharing of Audio-only content, Audio-Visual content, and Visual-only content between Subscribers on a Telephone call after it is in a talking state. The Content Sharing service could be offered to telephony subscribers where it becomes another vertical telephony feature like Ring-Back Tone service. The Subscriber to this Content Sharing service will be given the ability to access and select content that will be played while on an active telephone call. All the subscribers connected on the telephone call will be given the ability to control the playing of the content. The content itself will be managed by a centralized Content Server allowing control by the Content Providers of the content provided to subscribers. The content being shared can be stored centrally on a server or be content stored directly by the user on their terminal devices. Additionally, a method of control over content playback, similar to that offered in Content Sharing service, is defined to enhance Ring-Back Tone service and Video Ring-Back Tone service.

The invention relates to a push method for personalized ring tone recommendation information comprising following steps: receiving and recording user information transmitted by user terminal; the user information at least comprises user entity information; analyzing user information, and selecting personalized ring tone element fitting the user information; selecting preset number and matched personalized ring tone from ring tone resource pool according to personalized ring tone element, combining personalized ring tone of preset number into personalized ring tone recommendation information, pushing the information to user terminal. The invention also relates to a personalized ring tone recommendation information push platform and system. The invention analyzes corresponding personalized ring tone element according to user information and selects matched personalized ring tone, and actively pushes to user thereby inspiring subscription activity of polyphonic ringtone user .

A personality ring-back service system used in mobile communication net includes a signaling interface unit (SIU), a service control point (SCP), a service management point (SMP) and a personality ring-back server, among which, SIU, SCP, SMP are connected by TCP / IP network, SIU is connected with a mobile net by No.7 signaling net and the personality ring-back server stores the personality ring-back sound connected with the mobile communication net by No.7 net and a session relay. The method is that a mobile user sets an unconditional call to lead forward to the ring-back service system, the SCP instructs the said server to continue call according to the stored user data, at the same time the called rings, it plays the music or other phones predetermined by the called party to the calling party and to stop playing for ordinary session between them when the called is cut in.

Disclosed is a method and a system for providing a terminal-based ringback tone substitute service, as well as a mobile communication terminal for the same. The method includes the steps of (a) receiving a request for an originating call for voice communication with a called terminal from a calling terminal; (b) transmitting a ringback tone start message to the calling terminal, the ringback tone start message being a control message informative of beginning of a ringback tone section; (c) paging the called terminal; (d) transmitting a ringback tone termination message to the calling terminal, the ringback tone termination message being a control message informative of ending of the ringback tone section, and connecting the voice communication between the calling terminal and the called terminal when a response to paging is received from the called terminal; and (e) transmitting the ringback tone termination message to the calling terminal and transmitting unanswered messages to the calling terminal when no response to the paging is received from the called terminal. The mobile communication terminal can play a high-quality ringback tone substitute without being affected by the voice channel environment.

The present invention relates to a method of managing a trunk, and querying and ascertaining a ring-back sound to provide the ring-back sound in a subscriber-based ring-back sound service. In the trunk management method, a terminating mobile switching center (32) requests the intelligent peripheral (50) to release a trunk call when the terminating mobile switching center recognizes the answer of the terminating subscriber or when a first predetermined period of time has elapsed from a time when it is recognized that a corresponding ring-back sound is provided to the originator. Further, the intelligent peripheral (50) requests the terminating mobile switching center (32) to release the trunk call when a second predetermined period of time has elapsed from a time when the ring-back sound is provided.

Method for setting substitute ringback tone of calling party to be identical with that of called party. A substitute ringback tone playing server 30 in the system checks whether there is a certain key input or key input stream from the calling party requesting of bringing substitute ringback tone of the called party. Responding to the request, a bringing server 70 sets the substitute ringback tone code of the calling party stored in a playing control server 40 as that of the called party. A user interface server 50 allows a user to select a substitute ringback tone among multiple tones stored in a database 62 to give to another person as a present.

Embodiments of the present method allow only one serving mobile switching center to connect an incoming call from a communication terminal to a customized ring back tone server when a called mobile terminal moves from an area of a serving mobile switching center to an area of a bordering mobile switching center. Embodiments may have the steps of: passing, by the serving mobile switching center, an indicator that indicates whether customized ring back tone service is already provided for an incoming call to a mobile terminal to all bordering mobile switching centers when intersystem page operation is in effect; saving, upon receiving the indicator by each bordering mobile switching center, the information up for later processing in each bordering mobile switching center; checking, when a respective bordering mobile switching center receives the mobile terminating call, the indicator and checking active customized ring back tone service in a profile of the mobile terminal to determine if a customized ring back tone is to be provided to the communication terminal; and connecting, if the indicator indicates that the customized return ring back tone is not already connected to the communication terminal, to the communication terminal otherwise the respective bordering mobile switching center not connecting the customized ring back tone server again to the communication terminal even if the mobile terminal has customized ring back tone service active and a profile thereof. The system implements the method.

A system, method, and computer readable medium for providing a personalized ring back tone comprises receiving a location request return result message (76) at a mobile switching center (24), based on the location request return result message (76), receiving an initial address message (78) at a personal ring back tone platform (12), based on the initial address message (78), receiving an address complete message with an optional backward call indicator parameter (80) at the mobile switching center (24), and providing the personalized ring back tone from the personal ring back tone platform (12) while normal call progress is occurring.

A signaling-based processing method is presented, which is based on the influence of early media (a ring back tone or a voice notice before a session is established) from multiple called participants on the calling participant in SIP FORK-based voice service, which ensures the calling participant not to receive early media of multiple called participants at the same time.

A system and method for providing multimedia portal contents in a communication system. The method provides a ring-back tone to a calling terminal, the calling terminal sets first multimedia portal contents to be provided as the ring-back tone in consideration of given information of a calling terminal user. A called terminal sets second multimedia portal contents to provide as the ring-back tone in consideration of the given information of the calling terminal user, and the calling and called terminals transmit call connection setup related signals including set information. A first server receives the call connection setup-related signals and provides specific multimedia portal contents as the ring-back tone when the calling and called terminals set the multimedia portal contents, and provides the determined multimedia portal contents to the calling terminal.

The invention discloses a method for showing a called state on a calling terminal in a calling process, and further provides a corresponding device. The method comprises the steps that after receiving a calling request initiated by the calling terminal, a connecting module is connected with a network side; the current state of the called terminal is acquired and is forwarded to the calling terminal through a message replied to the calling terminal by the network side so as to be presented by the calling terminal. According to the method for showing the called state on the calling terminal in the calling process, a called party does not need to carry out any operation like button pressing or on-hook, the calling terminal can be informed of the state of the called party before a ring-back tone is played through a network, and therefore the purpose that the function of a mobile phone is more user-friendly can be achieved, and better experiences can be brought to users.