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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2004
Jesse Kates, Kansas City, MO (US);
Robert Miller, Leawood, KS (US);
Jesse Kates, Kansas City, MO (US);
Robert Miller, Leawood, KS (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method and system for providing an audible calling party identification and/or an audible calling/called party ringback services ('services') is disclosed. The system may include (and the method may perform the services in) a network having source, network, and destination nodes. The source and destination nodes may be equipped with ringtone-generation engines to generate ringtones. Each of the ringtones includes at least one audible tone. The method may include the source and/or destination node receiving from the network node information for producing a ringtone ('ringtone information'). The ringtone information is originated toward the destination node in response to the source node initiating a call to the destination node. After receipt, the source and/or destination nodes may generate the ringtone using their ringtone-generation engines and the ringtone information. After generating the ringtones, the source and/or destination ringtone-generation engines may provide them to users of the respective source and/or destination nodes.