Patent ID: 7054429

Claim:
A method of providing a call waiting notification to a participant in an existing telephone call, comprising the steps of: providing a Web-enabled interface through which a telephone subscriber can associate distinctive call waiting tones with calling parties, wherein each of the distinctive call waiting tones is a subscriber selected call waiting tone assigned to said calling parties, wherein the subscriber selects the call waiting tone via said Web-enabled interface over an Internet connection; receiving train a calling party, over a telephony connection, call information comprising a specified telephone number of a participant in an existing telephone call and at least one of a user name and password, wherein said participant is said subscriber; identifying said calling party using said call information; and causing a distinctive call waiting tone to be sent to said participant wherein said distinctive call waiting tone is associated with said calling party, and wherein said participant previously associated said distinctive call waiting tone with said calling party via said Web-enabled interface.