SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ALERT NOTIFICATIONS FOR A COMMUNICATION DEVICE

摘要

Applications (11b 11d) and data files (11a 11c 11e) for a communication device (10) enabling the device to use a segment of a media or multimedia file (lla) (an audio file or one or more components of an audio-video file) stored in the communication device (10) to alert a user of the communication device (10) to the occurrence of an event, and to do so in a way that conserves memory. The invention provides an offset selector application (11b) by which a user is able to indicate that a particular segment of the media file (Ha) is to be used to signal the occurrence of an event. Instead of storing the segment in the communication device (10) , the offset selector application (11b) typically stores only offsets (21a 21b) in respect to the media file (11a) , and the offsets are used in combination with the media file (11a) to provide the alert notification.