Patent ID: 7526566

Claim:
A radio communications device comprising: a transceiver configured to transmit and receive radio communications; a user interface configured to accept user input and provide user output; and a controller coupled to the transceiver and the user interface, the controller being configured to accept a streaming time to initiate media streaming in the future wherein the streaming time is accepted as user input through the user interface, to accept user input of a network address of a streaming server to provide media streaming content wherein the network address is accepted as user input through the user interface, and to initiate media streaming from the streaming server identified by the network address at the streaming time over a radio link so that the media streaming is received at the radio communications device through the transceiver; wherein the controller is further configured to determine if sound is being generated at a speaker of the radio communications device responsive to the media streaming after initiating media streaming, and to default to generating a backup tone at the speaker if sound is not being generated at the speaker responsive to the media streaming.