Patent ID: 8446897

Claim:
A method for providing a tone/announcement over a circuit switched wireless network, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a multimedia tone/announcement request message from a switch which determines whether to transmit the tone/announcement to a first terminal using a circuit switched wireless network; performing an initialization to open a channel between the first terminal and a server for providing a multimedia tone/announcement in response to the multimedia tone/announcement request; storing initialization information of the first terminal in the server for providing the multimedia tone/announcement; providing the first terminal with the multimedia tone/announcement; receiving a multimedia tone/announcement stop request message from the switch; stopping the multimedia tone/announcement in response to the multimedia tone/announcement stop request; and relaying the initialization information between the first terminal and a second terminal using the initialization information of the first terminal stored in advance in the server for providing the multimedia tone/announcement; wherein the stored initialization information comprises at least one of a terminal capability of the first terminal, multiplex information, a multiplex capability, and logical channel information.