Patent ID: 7305256

Claim:
A method for operating a user communication device, comprising the steps of: providing a pre-configured and complete digital representation of an audible signal in each of a plurality of memory locations of a memory of the user communication device, the audible signals being unique with respect to one another; receiving a call signal at the user communication device; in response to receiving the call signal at the user communication device, selecting one of the plurality of memory locations; determining whether the call signal itself includes information identifying an audible signal; in a case where the call signal itself includes information identifying an audible signal, determining whether the call signal is from a source listed in the memory as being pre-authorized to cause an audible signal identified by its call signal to be generated; and generating an audible signal, wherein the audible signal that is generated is the audible signal represented by the pre-configured and complete digital representation provided in the memory location selected in the selecting step, except that in response to receipt of a call signal that itself includes information identifying an audible signal and that is from a source listed in the memory as being pre-authorized, the audible signal that is generated is that audible signal identified by the call signal, rather than the audible signal represented by the pre-configured and complete digital representation provided in the memory location selected in the selecting step.