Custom ringback tone systems and methods

摘要

A ringback tone service may be configured by determining an indication to suggest one or more callers to a user of a mobile-telephony device and obtaining historical call data describing recent calls placed by recent callers to the mobile-telephony device in a recent period of time. After identifying a number of frequent callers for whom no custom ringback tone is currently provisioned, the user is prompted to select from a list of custom ringback tones that are available to provision for incoming calls from the frequent caller(s). In some cases, the user may send a message to the caller, allowing the caller to select his or her own custom ringback tone via a user interface provided by a ringback tone-service provider.

主权项

1. A mobile-telephony-device-implemented method for configuring a ringback tone service, the method comprising:
determining, by said mobile-telephony device, an indication to suggest one or more callers to a user of said mobile-telephony device; obtaining, by said mobile-telephony device, historical call data describing a plurality of recent calls placed by a plurality of recent callers to said mobile-telephony device in a recent-past period of time; identifying, by said mobile-telephony device, a plurality of frequent callers among said plurality of recent callers based at least in part on said historical call data; selecting, by said mobile-telephony device, from among said plurality of frequent callers a caller for whom no custom ringback tone is currently provisioned for calls placed by said caller to said mobile-telephony device; identifying, by said mobile-telephony device, a plurality of custom ringback tones that are currently available to said user to provision for calls placed by said caller to said mobile-telephony device; prompting, by said mobile-telephony device, said user to select one of said plurality of custom ringback tones to provision as a custom ringback tone for calls placed by said caller to said mobile-telephony device; obtaining from said user an indication to allow said caller to select said custom ringback tone for calls placed by said caller to said mobile-telephony device; prompting said caller to select one of said plurality of custom ringback tones; receiving an indication that said caller selected a selected one of said plurality of custom ringback tones; and receiving an indication that a remote ringback-tone server caused said selected one of said plurality of custom ringback tones to be provisioned for calls placed by said caller to said mobile-telephony device.