Patent ID: 8548418

Claim:
A method for associating a first ringtone with a first caller device, wherein a callee device and the first caller device are both communicatively coupled to a communication infrastructure, the method comprising: the callee device receiving, via the communication infrastructure, a first association request, wherein the first association request contains a first reference to the first ringtone and a first identifier associated with the first caller device; the callee device determining that the first identifier is in a trust group defined by the callee device, wherein the trust group contains a list of identifiers of caller devices trusted by the first callee device, and wherein the list of caller devices is based on contact information from a social networking account of the first callee device; in response to receiving the first association request and the first identifier being in the trust group, the callee device forming a first association between the first ringtone and the first caller device; after forming the first association, the callee device receiving, via the communication infrastructure, a first indication that the first caller device has initiated a first call to the callee device; and based on the first association, the callee device playing out the first ringtone.