Patent ID: 7277734
Filing Date: 2007-10-02
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A device that plays alerts and is used with a wireless communication device, the device comprising: a substantially rectangular planar shell having electrical terminals on one side of the planar shell that are also electrically connectable to electrical terminals on a wireless communication device; a battery powering the wireless communication device; an alert generating device, located inside the shell and electrically connected to the electrical connectors of the planar shell, comprising memory for storing an alert file, wherein the alert generating device is triggered to play an alert associated with the file upon detection of a signal from the wireless communication device to the battery generated by an incoming communication by the wireless communication device and wherein further, the alert generating device is also triggered to play the alert associated with the file upon detection of a signal from the wireless communication device to the battery generated by an event at the wireless communication device other than an incoming communication; and a selector device on the rectangular planar shell for scrolling through a plurality of sound files and designating a sound file to use as the alert file.