Patent ID: 8634536

Claim:
A method of providing ringback video, the method comprising: receiving a connection request at an originating servicing call session control function network element, the connection request indicating that a caller device has placed a call to a destination device associated with a ringback video service subscriber; receiving a plurality of naming authority pointer records at the originating servicing call session control function network element from a telephone number mapping server, wherein the naming authority pointer records include a plurality of ringback video uniform resource indicators associated with the destination device; modifying, by utilizing a processor that executes instructions stored in memory, the connection request to include the plurality of ringback video uniform resource indicators; sending the modified connection request to a terminating servicing call session control function that communicates with the destination device; adding, at the terminating servicing call session control function that communicates with the destination device, a first ringback video uniform resource indicator of the plurality of ringback video uniform resource indicators to a ringing message from the destination device, wherein the adding is based upon the modified connection request; and supplying the first ringback video universal resource indicator to the caller in response to receiving the ringing message.