Alert signal generation
AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorAnders Fahnoe Heie
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Abstract
An alert signal of a communication device (1), such as the ring signal of a mobile phone, comprises a set of musical samples that are played by the communication device in sequence. The sequence may be randomly generated, either in response to the event causing the alert or in a set up phase. Alternatively, the user of the device can create a tune to be used as the alert signal by creating a sequence of samples. The user selects samples from a list of samples to create the sequence of samples as individual samples may appear more than once in the tune.
Claims31
A method of alerting a user of a communications device to an incoming communication, the method comprising:—
- detecting in incoming communication,
- obtaining a sequence in which data defining a plurality of musical samples is to be read from a memory, and
- responding to the detection of an incoming communication by reading said data from the memory in the obtained sequence and generating an audio signal in dependence on said data.
A method according to any preceding claim, wherein obtaining said sequence comprises storing sequence definition data in a memory and reading the sequence definition from said memory, and said samples are read in the sequence defined by the sequence definition data read from said memory.
A method according to any preceding claim, comprising storing said music samples in the memory.
A communication device comprising:—
- means for detecting an incoming communication;
- acoustic signal generation means for generating an acoustic signal;
- a memory storing data defining a plurality of musical samples;
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- processing means configured to read the data defining musical samples from the memory in a sequence and control the acoustic signal generator, in dependence thereon, so as to cause the acoustic signal generator to produce an alert signal defined by the read musical samples.
A mobile phone substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.