Method and apparatus for network maintenance and supervision of a controlled on-board audio portion

摘要

A method for network maintenance and supervision of an on-board controlled audio agent, the method constituted of: providing a plurality of audio portions, each of the provided audio portions being selected responsive to user descriptive data associated with a call initiator; providing a reimbursement rule associated with each of the audio portions; selecting, for each call instance, a particular one of the plurality of audio portions responsive to the determined reimbursement rules; and outputting the particular one of the plurality of audio portions at each call instance initiation such that at least a portion of the particular audio portion is heard by the call initiator prior to call connection.

主权项

1. 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; andoutput, 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.