Patent ID: 7725100

Claim:
A method for indicating that a wireless device has received an incoming call signal, the method comprising: establishing a defined group of incoming call indicators; receiving the incoming call signal on the wireless device; receiving an incoming call identifier associated with the incoming call signal; comparing the received incoming call identifier to a predefined list of incoming call identifiers; if a match is found, then performing the following steps a) through c); a) retrieving an incoming call indicator parameter associated with the incoming call identifier; b) if the retrieved incoming call indicator parameter indicates that the incoming call indicator should be selected from the defined group of incoming call indicators, then selecting the incoming call indicator from the defined group of incoming call indicators and providing the selected incoming call indicator through the wireless device; c) if the retrieved incoming call indicator parameter does not indicate that the incoming call indicator should be selected from the defined group of incoming call indicators, then providing a predefined incoming call indicator through the wireless device; if a match is not found, then performing the following steps aa) through cc); aa) retrieving a default incoming call indicator parameter; bb) if the retrieved default incoming call indicator parameter indicates that the incoming call indicator should be selected from the defined group of incoming call indicators, then selecting the incoming call indicator from the defined group of incoming call indicators and providing the selected incoming call indicator through the wireless device; cc) if the retrieved default incoming call indicator parameter does not indicate that the incoming call indicator should be selected from the defined group of incoming call indicators, then providing a predefined incoming call indicator through the wireless device.