Patent ID: 8718256

Claim:
A system for providing a ringback tone (RBT) to a user, the system comprising: a sound file storage for storing one or more sound files; a user database configured to: receive a sound selection information from a user terminal, wherein the sound selection information indicates a selected sound file stored in a sound file storage, record a sound file identifier, wherein the sound file identifier comprises an indication of the selected sound file determined from the sound selection information, wherein the sound file storage comprises the selected sound file, determine recommended output position information of the selected sound file corresponding to the sound selection information, wherein the recommended output position information is determined by considering a change of sound volume of the selected sound file, transmit the recommended output position information to the user terminal; receive the recommended output position information for the selected sound file from the user terminal, wherein the recommended output position information corresponds to a desired region of the selected sound file that comprises a beginning and an end portion and is shorter than the entire selected sound file; wherein the desired region is selected by a user of the user terminal; and record the recommended output position information without additionally storing a sound file of the desired region, wherein the recommended output position information is stored in reference to the sound file identifier; and an RBT providing unit configured to reproduce the desired region, which corresponds to the recommended output position information, from the selected sound file indicated by the sound file identifier with reference to the sound file storage and the user database so as to provide the desired region as an RBT.