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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2000
Laurent Le-Faucheur, Antibes, FR;
Marc Couvrat, St. Laurent du Var, FR;
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods are presented to allow the creation of a personalized audio signal for a communication device., An option to record audio input and create a call signal audio file is selected via an input mechanism ( ). Audio input is recorded when a record button ( ) is pressed and the recording is terminated when the record button ( ) is pressed a second time. Processing circuitry ( ) optionally applies audio compression, filtering and encoding algorithms to said audio input and creates a call signal audio file. The call signal audio file is then stored in the memory circuitry designated for call signal audio files ( ). Additional audio output circuitry ( ) plays the call signal audio file when an incoming call is detected by the transceiver ( ).