Patent ID: 7212840
Filing Date: 2007-05-01
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. An incoming call reception informing method for a cellular phone including a function of generating, when an incoming call is received, an incoming call tone to inform a user of reception of the incoming call, the method comprising: storing incoming call tone data from which a plurality of kinds of incoming call tones are obtained, respectively; specifying, whenever said incoming call is received, the incoming call tone data of which rank in predetermined order is used; providing a table in which information used to specify a kind of said incoming call tone data is set in correspondence to information indicating order of said incoming call tone data; setting set information indicating whether or not selection of the incoming call tone data based on said table is carried out; selecting the incoming call tone data based on the contents of said table, or selecting, when said set information indicates the selection of the incoming call tone data based on said table is not carried out, an incoming call tone data specified in advance; and reading out the specified incoming call tone data to output an incoming call tone.