Patent ID: 7400905

Claim:
A device for inserting sound segments into a voice channel carrying a voice stream of a voice transmission communication device, comprising: a client controller structured and arranged: to store two or more catalogs, each catalog including two or more different sound segments, to receive instructions that a particular catalog has been selected, and to load the selected catalog such that two or more sound trigger buttons on a handset become programmed to each correspond to a specific sound segment within the selected catalog, the two or more sound trigger buttons are adapted to be activated in response to a user input after a voice channel is established, each sound trigger button being configured to enable selection of a specific corresponding sound segment within the catalog loaded by the client controller for insertion into the voice channel responsive to sound trigger button activation during an ongoing communication over the voice channel; a display configured to present a menu associated with two or more different sound segments within the selected catalog loaded by the client controller; a communications interface configured to establish the voice channel; sound trigger buttons configured to enable selection, in response to user input reflecting activation of the sound trigger button during the ongoing communication over the established voice channel, of the sound segment corresponding to the selected sound trigger button from among the two or more different sound segments within the catalog loaded by the client controller, the sound segment to be carried within the voice channel, the voice channel carrying voice data; and a mixer configured to couple with the audio channel, to receive a selected sound segment within the catalog loaded by the client controller in response activation of the sound trigger button and to inject the selected sound segment into the voice channel, the voice channel contemporaneously carrying the selected sound segment and voice stream as a single output stream.