Patent ID: 8879711

Claim:
A telephone comprising a system for on-board supervision of a controlled audio portion, the telephone comprising: a functionality arrange to initiate a phone call from the telephone; a controlled audio agent on-board the telephone and responsive to the initiate functionality of the telephone; an audio portion storage on-board the telephone and associated with said controlled audio agent; an audio output device associated with the telephone; and a data communication module on-board the telephone, said data communication module arranged to download a plurality of audio portions from a network and store the downloaded plurality of audio portions on said audio portion storage, said controlled audio agent arranged to: receive from said initiate functionality an indication of a phone call initiation from the telephone; select, for each phone call instance initiated by said telephone, a particular one of said stored plurality of audio portions from said audio portion storage; and output, responsive to said received indication, said selected particular one of said stored plurality of audio portions on an audio output of the initiating telephone such that at least a portion of said selected particular audio portion is output by the initiating telephone associated audio output device prior to the phone call connection.