Patent ID: 7953211

Claim:
A system for modifying an existing ringback replacement system on a communication network, comprising: an article having a printed matter containing at least one machine recognizable feature; a communication station for transmitting first information regarding said at least one machine recognizable feature and for transmitting second information for creating an association with at least one parameter of a calling party; a feature recognition unit coupled to said communication station for obtaining said first information from the at least one machine recognizable feature; a network storage device for storing a plurality of announcements; and a ringback update system communicatively coupled to said network storage device for modifying said plurality of announcements, wherein the communication station or the feature recognition unit transmits said first information to said ringback update system via the communication network upon receiving said first information, and wherein the ringback update system automatically without user intervention downloads said at least one announcement associated with said first information to the network storage device and assigns said at least one announcement to said at least one parameter in response to receiving said first information and said second information, wherein the communication station is associated with a called party, and wherein at least a portion of a call signal provided to the calling party is replaced by at least a portion of the at least one announcement and delivered to said calling party after said calling party establishes communication with the communication station but before active communication with the communication station.