Patent ID: 7715883

Claim:
A method comprising: facilitating detection of an incoming communication; generating a substantially random sequence of data, the sequence of data defining a plurality of musical samples; facilitating storage of the substantially random sequence of data in a memory; responding to the detection of an incoming communication by: reading said sequence of data from the memory, and generating an audio signal in dependence on said sequence of data, wherein each sample among said samples comprises at least one note and one of said samples comprises a plurality of notes, and wherein at least one sample comprises a first null character and a second null character; evaluating the first null character to determine that a user selected a random ring signal, the random ring signal corresponds to the random sequence of data; evaluating the second null character to determine that the user made a selection regarding the audio signal; and generating a random sequence of said samples using a style code, in response to evaluating the second null character, wherein said data comprises frequency-defining data and duration-defining data for each note of each sample among said samples, and wherein the frequency-defining data comprises a code representing pitch quantized according to a predetermined scale.