Patent ID: 7054672

Claim:
An incoming-call signaling melody data transmitting apparatus for transmitting an incoming-call signaling melody data to a terminal device, said apparatus comprising: a data reception section for receiving, from the terminal device via a network, remixing-method specification data which specifies a remixing method for a specified piece of music, and which comprises style specification data which specifies a style for remixing the specified piece of music; a remixing section for executing a remixing process for the specified piece of music in accordance with the remixing method specified by the received remixing-method specification data so as to generate a piece of remixed music data, said remixing process comprising executing an arrangement process corresponding to the style specified by the style specification data; a transmission section for transmitting the piece of remixed music data generated by the remixing section to the terminal device; a screen-data transmission section for transmitting screen data to the terminal device, said screen data comprising data for causing a display screen of the terminal device to display a style specification portion for specifying the style for remixing the specified piece of music; and a remixing-data storing section for storing in a memory unit remixing-process content data related to the remixing process of the piece of remixed music data, such that the piece of remixed music data generated by using the remixing-process content data stored in the memory unit is available for transmission to another terminal device.