Patent ID: 7251506

Claim:
A mobile phone system having an incoming melody designating function, said system comprising mobile phones, a network to which said mobile phones are connectable, and a network server for storing a plurality of incoming melody data in association with identifiers (IDs) thereof; any one of said mobile phones including means for retrieving a list of incoming melodies stored in said network server, means for designating, by said ID, a desired incoming melody, as selected by said retrieving function; means for appending an ID of the selected incoming melody to transmission information that includes a contact site of a counterpart party, to send out the resultant ID-transmission information to said network, and means for extracting an incoming melody data to replay said incoming melody data by incoming announcing means, on receipt of the incoming information including said incoming melody data from said network; said network including means for extracting the ID of said incoming melody from the transmission information, received from said mobile phone, and having the ID of said incoming melody appended thereto, and for transmitting the extracted ID to said network server, and means for appending incoming melody data corresponding to said ID, received from said network server, to the incoming information, corresponding to said transmission information, and for transmitting the melody data-incoming information to another mobile phone specified by said transmission information; said network server including means for reading out an incoming melody data corresponding to said ID thereof on receipt of said ID from said network and for transmitting the so read-out incoming melody data to said network, wherein, said one phone corresponds to a transmitting party, said another mobile phone corresponds to a receiving party, said means for retrieving the list of incoming melodies stored in said network server, allows the transmitting party to select, out of the list incoming melodies stored in the network server, the incoming melody which the transmitting party desires to be replayed by the another mobile phone of the receiving party, thereby enabling the transmitting party to designate the incoming melody of the another mobile phone of the receiving party.