Patent ID: 8289876

Claim:
A method for providing an announcement in the form of an information output for a user engaged in real-time traffic communication transmitted over a packet-oriented network, the method comprising: signaling a request for the announcement to an information output system, wherein the request comprises information about the requested announcement and information about at least one telephony coding method acceptable to be used for the announcement; storing in the information output system and/or a separate memory system a series of concatenatable fragments which are used to form an announcement and which are precoded according to at least one of the telephony coding methods; storing in the information output system and/or the separate memory system a series of creation files, each creation file containing creation rules in accordance with which a particular announcement is assembled by concatenating appropriate fragments; determining by the information output system the creation file and the fragments required for generating the requested announcement out of the fragments, wherein the determination is based on the information about the requested announcement and the coding method used for the announcement; generating the announcement in form of an information output by concatenating the fragments according to the determined creation rules; and transmitting the information output through the packet-oriented network to the user.