US 12,267,456 B2
Method for operating a device for handling a phone call
Kun Qian, Beijing (CN); and Zhihong Guo, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to Orange, Issy-les-Moulineaux (FR)
Appl. No. 18/008,098
Filed by Orange, Issy-les-Moulineaux (FR)
PCT Filed Jun. 25, 2021, PCT No. PCT/IB2021/000428
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 2, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/003415, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 6, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/CN2020/098743 (WO), filed on Jun. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0275990 A1, Aug. 31, 2023
Int. Cl. H04M 3/42 (2006.01)
CPC H04M 3/42017 (2013.01) 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a device, wherein the method is performed by a processing unit of the device and comprises:
receiving a message signaling an incoming phone call from a calling party via a server;
generating a ringing message comprising at least one additional parameter specifying an enriched ring-back tone to be played, as a function of at least a status information available to the device; and
transmitting the ringing message to the server for playing to the calling party the enriched ring-back tone,
wherein the ring-back tone is different from a default ring-back tone to be played by the server when receiving a default ringing message without the additional parameter, the enriched ring-back tone reciting a piece of information regarding the status information;
the method further comprising, before transmitting the ringing message to the server, transmitting the default ringing message to the server for playing to the calling party the default ring-back tone, and
wherein transmitting the ringing message is performed if the device is still ringing at the expiration of a determined duration after the transmission of the default ringing message to the server.