Jeffrey Thomas Scruggs

US Patent:

7233658, Jun 19, 2007

Filed:

Aug 13, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/216781

Inventors:

Thomas Daniel Koser - San Diego CA, US
Jeffrey L. Scruggs - Round Rock TX, US
Stephen Mark Mueller - Austin TX, US

Assignee:

AT&T Knowledge Ventures, L.P. - Austin TX

International Classification:

H04M 1/00
H04M 3/00

US Classification:

37937301, 37921501

Abstract:

A subscriber associates a ring-tone media selection based on a media genre, author, or title to a calling number. When an incoming call is detected, a particular ring-tone media selection, based on the subscriber's association, may be streamed from a central server to the subscriber's customer premises equipment and then played. Alternatively, when an incoming call is detected, a particular ring-tone selection indicator, based on the subscriber's association, may be sent from a central server to the subscriber's customer premises equipment which then plays a pre-stored ring-tone selection media associated with the indicator.