Patent ID: 8130930

Claim:
A method comprising: establishing a first call leg with a ring-back tone generator system, the ring-back tone generator system providing a customized ring-back tone over the first call leg to a caller party attempting to establish a call connection with a called party; establishing a second call leg between the ring-back tone generator system and the called party, the ring-back tone generator system providing notification to the called party over the second call leg of the attempted call connection; detecting acceptance of the call connection by the called party; providing notification to terminate the first call leg and the second call leg and bridge the caller party to the called party at a remote communication device with respect to the ring-back tone generator system, the remote communication device residing in a path of both the first call leg and the second call leg; wherein establishing the first call leg includes maintaining call leg identification information associated with the second call leg; and wherein providing notification includes communicating, the call leg identification information associated with the second call leg, to notify the remote communication device to terminate the first call leg and the second call leg and connect the caller party to the called party at the remote communication device.