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AssigneeSprint Spectrum L.P.
InventorsBaoquan Zhang, Charles E. Woodson, Geoff S. Martin, Jay S. Harmon, Jonathan R. Kindred
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A carrier providing wireless services provides ringback media such as call tones via one or more call tones content providers. In one aspect, a service entity (e.g., SCP or application server) is provisioned with data unique to ringback media service subscribed to by the subscriber. The service entity provides routing instructions to a mobile switching center identifying a ringback media server (e.g., content provider platform) to render ringback media to the caller. In another aspect, a caller can exercise control over the play of ringback media, e.g., by inputting DTMF tones, which responsively cause a ringback media server to change the play of ringback media, e.g., stop it or play a different selection. In another aspect, when a subscriber initiates a call to called party that subscribes to a competitor carrier, the carrier limits exposure of the subscriber to the ringback media of the competitor carrier. In one possible configuration, the carrier inserts its own ringback media.
A method of a controlling play of ringback media to a caller which subscribes to a first carrier, comprising the steps of:
A method of a controlling play of ringback media to a caller which subscribes to a first carrier, comprising the steps of:
A method of a controlling play of ringback media to a caller which subscribes to a first carrier, comprising the steps of:
A method of a controlling play of ringback media to a caller which subscribes to a first carrier, comprising the steps of:
In a ringback media server having a processing unit and a memory storing program instructions for execution by the processing unit, the ringback media server transmitting ringback media to callers served by a carrier providing wireless services for said callers, the improvement comprising:
A method of routing an incoming call for a ringback media subscriber to a ringback media server, comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.