Patent ID: 8892078

Claim:
A method for presenting a Multimedia Ring Tone (MRT) for an Instant Message (IM), comprising: setting for a user, in an Instant Message Application Server (IM-AS), an MRT presenting rule of the IM; when the IM-AS receives the IM from the user, and determines, according to the MRT presenting rule of the IM, that an MRT needs to be presented to a receiver of the IM, selecting, by the IM-AS, an MRT to be presented from MRT resources of the user, and sending, by the IM-AS, address information of the MRT to be presented in a Resource Server (RS) along with the IM to the IM receiver; and downloading, by the IM receiver, the MRT from the RS according to the address information of the MRT resources; and presenting, by the IM receiver, the MRT.