Patent ID: 9131046
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A mobile-telephony-device-implemented method for configuring a ringback tone service, the method comprising: determining, by said mobile-telephony device, an indication to suggest one or more callers to a user of said mobile-telephony device; obtaining, by said mobile-telephony device, historical call data describing a plurality of recent calls placed by a plurality of recent callers to said mobile-telephony device in a recent-past period of time; identifying, by said mobile-telephony device, a plurality of frequent callers among said plurality of recent callers based at least in part on said historical call data; selecting, by said mobile-telephony device, from among said plurality of frequent callers a caller for whom no custom ringback tone is currently provisioned for calls placed by said caller to said mobile-telephony device; identifying, by said mobile-telephony device, a plurality of custom ringback tones that are currently available to said user to provision for calls placed by said caller to said mobile-telephony device; prompting, by said mobile-telephony device, said user to select one of said plurality of custom ringback tones to provision as a custom ringback tone for calls placed by said caller to said mobile-telephony device; obtaining from said user an indication to allow said caller to select said custom ringback tone for calls placed by said caller to said mobile-telephony device; prompting said caller to select one of said plurality of custom ringback tones; receiving an indication that said caller selected a selected one of said plurality of custom ringback tones; and receiving an indication that a remote ringback-tone server caused said selected one of said plurality of custom ringback tones to be provisioned for calls placed by said caller to said mobile-telephony device.