Patent ID: 7512421

Claim:
In a system connected to a mobile switching center configured to provide a substitute ringback tone to a caller terminal while the mobile switching center is establishing a call connection between the caller and receiver terminals, a method of providing the substitute ringback tone to the caller terminal comprising the steps of: storing substitute ringback tone setting information of every service subscriber who has subscribed to a substitute ringback tone service in a play control server, and storing various substitute ringback tones in a play server, wherein the play server is configured to reproduce and provide one of the various substitute ringback tones in response to a request from the mobile switching center, the substitute ringback tone being selected based on the setting information stored in the play control server; receiving a call information including an identification code of the receiver terminal from the mobile switching center; identifying a tone code for the receiver terminal from the play control server, reproducing the substitute ringback tone corresponding to the identified tone code, and providing the substitute ringback tone to the caller terminal; checking whether a predetermined key input is received from the caller terminal; and when the predetermined key input is received from the caller terminal, checking the identification code of the caller terminal and the tone code for the receiver terminal stored in the play control server and setting the substitute ringback tone of the caller terminal such that the substitute ringback tone of the caller terminal is identical to the substitute ringback tone of the receiver terminal.