Patent ID: 8351585

Claim:
A method for implementing a multimedia ring back tone service, comprising: parsing by a calling terminal, a tone playing policy; originating by the calling terminal, a call request including a caller tone flag or a callee tone flag according to a parsing result; receiving by a caller tone application server, the call request; determining by the caller tone application server, whether to play a caller tone or a callee tone according to the respective caller tone flag or the callee tone flag included in the call request: if the caller tone application server determines that the caller tone is to be played according to the caller tone flag carried in the call request: the caller tone application server performs a caller tone media negotiation with the calling terminal, plays the caller tone, and sends the call request to a called Call Session Control Function (CSCF), if the caller tone application server determines that the callee tone is to be played according to the callee tone flag carried in the call request: the caller tone application server sends the call request to the called CSCF without triggering a caller tone process; receiving by a callee tone application server, the call request forwarded from the called CSCF; and determining by the callee tone application server, whether to play the caller tone or the callee tone according to the respective caller tone flag or the callee tone flag included in the call request: if the callee tone application server determines that the caller tone is to be played according to the caller tone flag carried in the call request: the callee tone application server sends the call request to a called terminal without triggering a callee tone process, if the callee tone application server determines that the callee tone is to be played according to the callee tone flag carried in the call request: the callee tone application server performs a callee tone media negotiation with the calling terminal, sends the call request to the called terminal and plays the callee tone.