US Patent 7340050 Apparatus and method for controlling incoming melody

In an apparatus and method for controlling an incoming melody, a receiver's telephone terminal allows a caller who transmits a call request signal to select a specific receiver with whom the caller wants to establish a voice call. The receiver's telephone terminal outputs a unique incoming melody corresponding to the receiver selected by the caller so that a number of users that use the receiver's telephone terminal can clearly determine the receiver that the caller requests through the outputted incoming melody. As a result, a higher level of call service is provided to the users that use the telephone terminal.