H04M 3/42017
Customized ring-back tones
Official title: {Customized ring-back tones}
H04M3/42017 (Customized ring-back tones) appears on 492 US grants and 648 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04M- Granted patents
- 492
- Published applications
- 648
- Assignees
- 212
- Inventors
- 999
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, information processing method, and terminal16 Jun 2026US 12,659,404 B2LY Corporation
- Method and apparatus for processing caller ring back tone, storage medium, and electronic device31 Mar 2026US 12,592,990 B2Zte Corporation
- Method for playing multimedia customized ringing signal and customized alerting tone, and application server20 Jan 2026US 12,531,946 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Multimedia file distribution method, multimedia control method, multimedia management platform, caller ring back tone platform and computer-readable storage medium23 Dec 2025US 12,506,831 B2Zte Corporation
- Intelligent call handling and routing18 Nov 2025US 12,477,043 B18x8, Inc.
- Call processing method, device, and storage medium9 Jul 2026US 2026/0197396 A1Honor Device Co., Ltd.
- Method for playing and providing incoming call ringtone, and terminal, server and medium2 Jul 2026US 2026/0189652 A1Zte Corporation
- Call processing method, and electronic device and computer-readable storage medium14 May 2026US 2026/0135943 A1Zte Corporation
- Call Connection Method and Apparatus19 Mar 2026US 2026/0081959 A1Honor Device Co., Ltd.
- Service implementation method and apparatus, communication device, and storage medium9 Oct 2025US 2025/0317479 A1China Mobile Communication Co., Ltd Research Institute
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