Patent ID: 8355704

Claim:
A method for configuring a ringing tone according to a ring back tone, comprising: sending, by a user terminal, a ring back tone configuration request to a ring back tone platform; configuring, by the ring back tone platform, ring back tone information for the user according to the ring back tone configuration request; sending, by the user terminal, a ringing tone configuration request to the ring back tone platform; determining, by the ring back tone platform, a relevant data of a corresponding ringtone information according to a corresponding relationship between the ringtone information and the ring back tone information; finding, by the ring back tone platform, the relevant data of the corresponding ringtone information from a ring back tone data base of the ring back tone platform; sending, by the ring back tone platform, the relevant data of the corresponding ringtone information to the user terminal; and configuring, by the user terminal, the ringing tone according to the relevant data of the corresponding ringtone information, wherein the relevant data of the corresponding ringtone information is a ringing tone data or a download link information of the ringing tone data, wherein the process of obtaining the ringing tone by the terminal of the user comprises: sending, by the ring back tone platform, a result of the ring back tone configuration to a ringing tone download server when the relevant data is the download link information of the ringing tone; and providing, by a ringing tone download server, the terminal of the user with ringing tone data corresponding to the result of the ring back tone configuration, wherein the process of providing the ringing tone data by the ringing tone download server comprises: constructing, by the ringing tone download server, a Push message carrying description information of the ringing tone, and sending the Push message to the terminal of the user; or providing, by the ringing tone download server, a Push Proxy Gateway, PPG, with ringtone information corresponding to the result of the ring back tone configuration; sending, by the PPG, the Push message constructed according to the ringtone information; the terminal of the user connecting to a Wireless Application Protocol, WAP, gateway according to the Push message; and providing, by the ringing tone download server, the terminal of the user with the ringing tone corresponding to the result of the ring back tone configuration via the WAP gateway.