Patent ID: 7904067

Claim:
A system comprising: a notification insertion logic to send a notification that is selected by a caller for a recipient, wherein the caller selected notification announces an incoming call to the recipient, identifies the caller to the recipient, and comprises one or more of a photo, animation, graphic, audio data, multimedia data or video data; a call router in a server to send a message to a recipient device notifying the recipient of the caller selected notification; and the call router in the server further to receive an acknowledgement from a notification verification logic in the recipient device indicating that the recipient device does not already have the caller selected notification stored in memory, and the notification insertion logic to deliver the caller-selected notification to the recipient device in response to receiving the acknowledgement, wherein if the delivery does not finish before a preset period has elapsed, playing a normal ringtone by the recipient device, and finishing delivery of the caller-selected notification onto the recipient device for storage by the recipient device for future use.