Patent ID: 8060055

Claim:
A method for downloading media resources to a terminal, comprising: configuring, by a calling terminal, a mapping relation between a type of the terminal and subscriber identify module card through a color ring back tone platform, the configured content based on the mapping relation constituting historical information in a terminal information database; calling, by the calling terminal, a called subscriber who has subscribed to a color ring back tone service, through a Mobile Switching Center, MSC, at a calling side, and establishing, by the calling terminal, a bi-direction connection to the color ring back tone platform through the mobile switching center according to ring back tone registration information of the called subscriber obtained by the mobile switching center; sending, by the calling terminal, to the color ring back tone platform a download command for downloading a ring back tone being played by the color ring back tone platform; and receiving, by the color ring back tone platform, the download command from the calling terminal through the bi-direction connection searching, by the color ring back tone platform, the historical information to obtain the type of the calling terminal; determining, by the color ring back tone platform, a content list in a format matching the type of the calling terminal; sending, by the color ring back tone platform, a content confirming message to the calling terminal and obtaining a confirmation, wherein the content confirming message containing the content list; and and sending a confirmed media resource corresponding to the ring back tone to the calling terminal after the confirmation from the calling terminal is received.