摘要 |
A method and apparatus are disclosed for enabling a telecommunications terminal to notify its user of the arrival of a message via an acoustic or visual signal whose properties are based on one or more attributes of the message. The illustrative embodiment sets the values of one or more properties of a ringtone (e.g., tempo, volume, pitch, rhythm, etc.) based on one or more attributes of an incoming message (e.g., who the sender of the message is, a priority associated with the message, a subject associated wit h the message, the semantic content of the message, the location from which the message was sent, etc.). Similarly, properties of text (e.g., font size, font style, color, dynamic behavlor such as flashing, etc.) and of images (e.g., brightness, size, contrast, resolution, etc.) for notifying the user of an incoming message are set based on attributes of the message.< /SDOAB>
|