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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2007
Geoff S. Martin, Overland Park, KS (US);
Jay S. Harmon, Overland Park, KS (US);
Jonathan R. Kindred, Gardner, KS (US);
Geoff S. Martin, Overland Park, KS (US);
Jay S. Harmon, Overland Park, KS (US);
Jonathan R. Kindred, Gardner, KS (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A call tones management platform provides a facility for configuration of a user profile. The user profile specifies the circumstances under which organizational call tones (such as a call tone of an employer of the subscriber using the phone) or a personal, non-organizational tone should be rendered to a calling party. When a call is placed to the subscriber, the profile is consulted and an instruction for rendering a call tone in accordance with the profile is sent to a call tones content provider or run time site generating call tones during the time of a call. The call tones management platform implements logic for resolving potential scheduling conflicts between organizational call tones and private call tones, such as, for example, a rule in which the organizational call tone trumps personal call tones for calls are made to the subscriber telephone during business hours.