Patent ID: 8000751

Claim:
A method of providing a Calling Party Selectable Ring Tone (CgPSRT) to a Called Party Mobile Terminal (CdP_MT) in a wireless communications network comprising: establishing a Music Trunk between a Serving MSC (SMSC) serving the CdP_MT and a Music Platform in a wireless network; establishing a traffic channel circuit from the SMSC and the CdP_MT in the wireless communications network; sending a CgPSRT Alert message to the CdP_MT instructing the CdP_MT to connect to the traffic channel and play a CgPSRT as an Alert; receiving a Dummy Answer Message from the CdP_MT in response to the CgPSRT Alert message; connecting the CdP_MT to the traffic channel; and sending CgPSRT music received from the Music Platform over the Music Trunk to the CdP_MT on the traffic channel for alerting a Called Party to an incoming call from the Called Party using the CgPSRT.