Patent ID: 7546148

Claim:
A system for providing a customized ringtone to a phone, the system comprising: a kiosk configured to receive a phone number of a phone and to record a sample recording; and a server configured to receive the phone number from the kiosk, to use the phone number to determine ringtone capabilities of the phone, to determine user selectable synthesizing options available for synthesizing the sample recording based on the ringtone capabilities of the phone, and to provide information indicative of the available user selectable synthesizing options to the kiosk; the kiosk further configured to display a user interface having the available user selectable synthesizing options for a user of the phone to select, the kiosk further configured to create a synthesized version of the sample recording using the user selectable synthesizing options selected by the user and to transmit the synthesized version of the sample recording to the server; the server further configured to convert the synthesized version of the sample recording to a customized ringtone and to transmit the customized ringtone to the phone for use by the phone in alerting the user of incoming phone calls.