Patent ID: 7515702

Claim:
A method for providing user-downloaded audio signals as ring tones in a cordless telephone, comprising: receiving a user-downloaded audio signal comprising a musical excerpt at an input jack of a handset of the cordless telephone; storing the user-downloaded audio signal in telephone memory of the cordless telephone; receiving a ring control signal to generate a ring tone; retrieving the stored user-downloaded audio signal in response to the ring control signal; and providing the retrieved user-downloaded audio signal to an external telephone speaker of the handset of the cordless telephone, wherein the cordless telephone comprises the handset and a base unit, wherein the telephone memory is located in the base unit, wherein the user-downloaded audio signal is received at the input jack of the handset and digitized and transmitted from the handset to the base unit memory via an RF communication, and wherein the retrieving the stored user-downloaded audio signal comprises: retrieving the user-downloaded audio signal from the base unit memory; compressing the user-downloaded audio signal; modulating the user-downloaded audio signal; and uplinking the user-downloaded audio signal for transmission to the handset via an RF communication.