Patent ID: 8705727

Claim:
A machine implemented method for controlling a telephone communications session, the method comprising: detecting an event associated with an alerting interval that occurs during the telephone communications session, the alerting interval providing a ringback signal to a calling device while the telephone communications session attempts to engage a user of a called device in the telephone communications session, wherein the event comprises activation of the alerting interval; and in response to detecting activation of the alerting interval, modifying state associated with audio processing applied to the telephone communications session, the audio processing adjusting an audio characteristic of audio transmitted during the telephone communications session, wherein modifying state associated with audio processing includes: transmitting at least one control protocol message to in-path equipment associated with the telephone communications session to adjust audio processing applied to the ringback signal by the in-path equipment to the telephone communications session during the alerting interval; applying the at least one control protocol message to the ringback signal for adjusting the audio processing applied to the telephone communications session during the alerting interval via applying secondary audio processing to the ringback signal, wherein applying the secondary audio processing occurs remotely from the calling device and the called device and includes boosting the ringback signal in response to detecting a noisy telephone communications session.