Patent ID: 8295887

Claim:
A method for adjusting a ring tone volume in a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising the steps of: determining if there is a request by a user for setting a multilevel ring tone volume having two or more intervals; displaying a screen, in response to the request, that allows the user to activate the two or more intervals from a plurality of intervals, to set an output volume level of a ring tone for each of the two or more intervals, and to set a duration for each of the two or more intervals; storing settings for the output volume levels and the durations input by the user through items displayed on the screen; setting a title for the multilevel ring tone volume and storing the title of the multilevel ring tone volume in a multilevel list; and allowing the ring tone to ring through the two or more intervals according to the user-set output volume levels and the user-set durations for each of the two or more intervals of the multi-level ring tone when the user selects the title of the multilevel ring tone volume from the multilevel list and a call is received.