July 28, 2007
Nokia patent: Compound ring tunes
This week Nokia received a patent for more than just mere ringtones, but ringtones that can be modified with a secondary tone, or what they call “compound ring tones“. CrunchGear reports.
"Nokia’s new patent covers the use of ring tone variations to assist quickly the different kinds of communications that you may now receive, e.g. email, text or a call. The details of the patent describe the option of modifying parts of a standard ring tone to enable a user to know that an incoming message is an email v. a call."
My red Nokia N76 (which went into the washing machine yesterday - I'll have to get a new one) already offers the option of assigning a different tone to SMS, email or voice calls. The novelty of this patent I guess is being able to personalize these options.
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