WO2010000326A1

WO2010000326A1 - Apparatus and method for telecommunication clip management

Info

Publication number: WO2010000326A1
Application number: PCT/EP2008/058663
Authority: WO
Inventors: Christoph Ferner
Original assignee: Hipro|Call Inc.
Priority date: 2008-07-04
Filing date: 2008-07-04
Publication date: 2010-01-07
Also published as: WO2010000342A1

Abstract

An apparatus (1), a method and a computer program product administrate clips for a clip telecommunication service using a clip, wherein a clip comprises at least one of audio and video data. The clips can be transferred and activated on a service provisioning system (4, 5) of a telecommunication system (8) providing a clip telecommunication service based on service activation information allocated to clip, a user (10) and a service. Personalized clips may be configured based on other clips. A clip may be provided to other users. Clips may be supplied to the clip management apparatus by the user or another user, preconf igured in the apparatus, or purchased.

Description

Apparatus and method for telecommunication clip management

Field of the invention

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for clip management. Specifically, the apparatus and method are configured to manage the usage of clips in a clip telecommunication service of a telecommunication system.

Background of the invention

The use of multimedia content as ringtones, video ringback tones, ringback tones, personalized announcements, etc. plays a more and more important role for the users of telecommunication services, in particular mobile phone users. Throughout this description, such multimedia content will be referred to as clip, i.e. a clip shall be defined to comprise content comprising at least one of audio and video data. Usually, the content is digitized. E.g., a clip may consist of a digital audio file, a digital video file, digitized voice, text, a still picture and any combination thereof .

Nowadays, some telecommunication service provisioning systems, such as voice mail systems, video ringback tone systems etc., provide the option to store a personalized clip. Furthermore, such systems usually provide some predefined clips that may be slightly configured by the user, e.g. by inserting his name at a placeholder. The user may activate one of the clips when appropriate.

However, if the user wants to activate another personalized clip, he has to replace the personalized clips stored up to then. That is, he looses the earlier personalized clips. If he wants to reuse this clip later on, he has to re-arrange it again and to store it again on the telecommunication service provisioning system. This is quite annoying for the user, and in some cases may be even impossible, if some building blocks the earlier personalized clip was composed of are not available any more.

Also, the user may want to switch announcements even when he is not connected to the service provisioning system.

E.g., if a user has a substitute during the first part of his holidays and another substitute during the second part, the announcement indicating his absence and his substitute should automatically be changed without user interaction. In this case a second personalized announcement must be available to the system and activated at a predefined time.

Furthermore, users may want to use their personalized clips or at least the building blocks they are composed of in several clip telecommunication services. E.g., a background music may be used in the voice mail system and underlying a ringback tone. Today, it is hardly possible to transfer a clip of one service for use within another service.

Still further, users may want to distribute their personalized clips to other users. E.g. one user may have created a video ringback tone including some music, announcement and a photo of the user. Another user may like this video ringback tone. Today, it is hardly possible to retrieve the video ringback tone from the telecommunication system and even harder to replace some building blocks within the video ringback tone.

Also, users may want to purchase a video or music and use them for their clip telecommunication service. Nowadays, this requires use of a system outside the telecommunication system, and then transferring the clip to the telecommunication system. This method is hence quite tedious .

Summary of the Invention

Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to overcome the drawbacks of the prior art.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising a storage means configured to store a clip as a stored clip and to store a service activation information, wherein a clip is defined by comprising at least one of audio data and video data, a clip management means configured to manage the service activation information by way of user action, wherein the service activation information is allocated to the stored clip, the user and a clip telecommunication service configurable to use said clip, and a clip provisioning means configured to provide, based on the service activation information, said stored clip to a service provisioning device of a telecommunication system configured to provide the clip telecommunication service.

Modifications of the first aspect of the present invention can be as follows.

The apparatus according to the first aspect of the invention can be a telecommunication clip management apparatus .

The clip telecommunication service can comprise at least one of a mailbox greeting service, a ringtone service, a ring back tone service, a video ringtone service, a video ring back tone service, an outbound greeting service, an email service, a download service, a sound format conversion service, a video format conversion service, as well as a timer delivery service.

The apparatus can comprise a clip configuration means configured to arrange a personalized clip based on at least one stored clip, wherein the storage means is further configured to store the personalized clip as a stored clip, and/or wherein the clip provisioning means is further configured to provide the personalized clip to a service provisioning device based on a user action.

The clip configuration means can be configured to arrange the personalized clip by way of user operation including one or more selected from a group comprising adding two or more stored clips, amending a stored clip, adding individual music to a stored clip, adding one or more audio or video files to a stored clip, adding placeholder building blocks, replacing placeholder building blocks, and adding uploaded user-edited clips and/or audio or video files to at least one stored clip.

The apparatus can be arranged such that the clip may be supplied to the apparatus by the user or by another user or may be preconfigured in the system or may be purchased by the user.

The clip provisioning means can be further configured to provide the clip to a service provisioning device based on a user action.

The service activation information can be time dependent. The apparatus can further comprise a clip authorization means configured to manage a utilization right of the user to the stored clip; an authorization means configured to manage and control an authorization of the user; and an admission means configured to admit the user to utilize the stored clip if the authorization and the utilization right match.

The apparatus can further comprise an authentication means configured to manage and control an authentication of the user, wherein the clip configuration means can be further configured to arrange the personalized clip including a clip that is predetermined based on the authentication of the user.

The apparatus can further comprise a web-based user interface configured to be operated by means of a hypertext transport protocol.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising a storage configured to store a clip as a stored clip and to store a service activation information, wherein a clip is defined by comprising at least one of audio data and video data, a clip manager configured to manage the service activation information by way of user action, wherein the service activation information is allocated to the stored clip, the user and a clip telecommunication service configurable to use said clip, and a clip provider configured to provide, based on the service activation information, said stored clip to a service provider of a telecommunication system configured to provide the clip telecommunication service.

Modifications of the second aspect of the present invention can be as follows. The apparatus according to the second aspect of the invention can be a telecommunication clip management apparatus .

The apparatus can comprise a clip configurator configured to arrange a personalized clip based on at least one stored clip, wherein the storage is further configured to store the personalized clip as a stored clip, and/or wherein the clip provider is further configured to provide the personalized clip to a service provider based on a user action.

The clip configurator can be configured to arrange the personalized clip by way of user operation including one or more selected from a group comprising adding two or more stored clips, amending a stored clip, adding individual music to a stored clip, adding one or more audio or video files to a stored clip, adding placeholder building blocks, replacing placeholder building blocks, and adding uploaded user-edited clips and/or audio or video files to at least one stored clip.

The apparatus can be arranged such that the clip may be supplied to the apparatus by the user or by another user or may be preconfigured in the system or may be purchased by the user. The clip provider can be further configured to provide the clip to a service provider based on a user action.

The service activation information can be time dependent.

The apparatus can further comprise a clip authorizer configured to manage a utilization right of the user to the stored clip; a user authorizer configured to manage and control an authorization of the user; and an admitter configured to admit the user to utilize the stored clip if the authorization and the utilization right match.

The apparatus can further comprises an authenticator configured to manage and control an authentication of the user, wherein the clip configurator is further configured to arrange the personalized clip including a clip that is predetermined based on the authentication of the user.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising storing a clip as a stored clip, wherein a clip is defined by comprising at least one of audio data and video data; allocating a service activation information to the stored clip, the user and a clip telecommunication service configurable to use said clip, and storing the service activation information; managing the service activation information by way of user action; and providing, based on the service activation information, said stored clip to a service provisioning device of a telecommunication system configured to provide the clip telecommunication service. The method according to the third aspect can be a method of telecommunication clip management.

The method according to the third aspect of the present invention can be modified as follows.

The method can further comprise arranging a personalized clip based on at least one stored clip; and at least one of storing the personalized clip as a stored clip and providing the personalized clip to the service provisioning system based on a user action.

Arranging the personalized clip by way of user operation can include one or more selected from a group comprising adding two or more stored clips, amending a stored clip, adding individual music to a stored clip, adding one or more pre-configured audio or video files to a stored clip, adding placeholder building blocks, replacing placeholder building blocks, and adding uploaded user-edited clips and/or audio or video files to at least one stored clip.

The method can further comprise any one of supplying the clip by the user or by another user, pre-configuring the clip in the apparatus; and purchasing the clip by the user. The method can further comprise providing the clip to the service provisioning device based on a user action.

The service activation information can be time dependent.

The method can further comprise managing a utilization right of the user to the stored clip; managing and controlling an authorization of the user; and admitting the user to utilize the stored clip if the authorization and the utilization right match.

The method can further comprise predetermining a clip for utilization of the user; managing and controlling an authentication of the user; and arranging the personalized clip including the predetermined clip.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer program product embodied on a computer-readable medium, comprising program code means which perform, when run on a computer, the method according to the third aspect of the present invention or any of its modifications .

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable components comprising storing a clip as a stored clip, wherein a clip is defined by comprising at least one of audio data and video data; allocating a service activation information to the stored clip, the user and a clip telecommunication service configurable to use said clip, and storing the service activation information; managing the service activation information by way of user action; and providing, based on the service activation information, said stored clip to a service provisioning device of a telecommunication system configured to provide the clip telecommunication service.

Such an apparatus, method and computer program product allow the user to manage the clips used in a telecommunication clip service. In particular, the user may activate and deactivate a clip without loosing it. Further, he may configure a clip according to his needs or desires which may be restricted based on the authorisation means or on the users authentication. Further, new clips may be available by configuring of the stored clips or by adding new clips to the apparatus, e.g. by purchasing or by uploading them. User may furthermore easily exchange their clips .

Brief description of the drawings

In the following, further features and advantages of the present invention are described by means of certain embodiments of the present invention by referring to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 shows the general network structure of an embodiment according to the present invention;

Fig. 2 shows a folder structure of the folder "My content" for illustrating an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 3 shows a folder structure of the folder "My Clip shaker" for illustrating an embodiment of the present invention; and

Fig. 4 shows a folder structure of the folder "My telecommunication store" for illustrating an embodiment of the present invention. Detailed description of certain embodiments

Herein below, certain embodiments of the present invention are described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein the features of the embodiments can be freely combined with each other unless otherwise described. However, it is to be expressly understood that the description of certain embodiments is given for by way of example only, and that it is by no way intended to be understood as limiting the invention to the disclosed details. In particular, the names of the folders are only given for illustrative purposes and are not restricted.

Furthermore, while in the following reference is made to a folder structure, graphical appearances of actual embodiments may vary. For example, a user interface may be provided in which buttons are visible for the user instead of the folders. It is to be understood that in such an example the buttons comprise the functionality described below in connection with the folders. Also other graphical appearances may be conceivable which are all intended to fall under the scope as defined in the appended claims.

Moreover, the following embodiments are merely described by the options the user has, i.e. by the method. However, it is to be understood that the apparatus is configured to perform the corresponding activities.

According to an embodiment of the present invention shown in Fig. 1, the clip management apparatus comprises one or more computers 1 with one or more storage devices 2 connected thereto. The storage device (s) may be physically integrated with the computer (s) or physically separated. The software comprising the program instructions for the clip management apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention and the clips are stored on the storage device (s). Alternatively, some or all of the program instructions may be embodied in specialized processors.

The apparatus is connected to the internet 3 and provides a web-based user interface to a user 10.

The computers are further connected to the service provisioning devices 4, 5 (e.g. a Voice Mail System and a Ringback tone system) providing a clip telecommunication service in a telecommunication system 8, e.g. a public switched telephony network PSTN, a public land mobile network PLMN, or a private access branch exchangePABX. The interfaces 6, 7 between the clip managing apparatus and the service provisioning devices are appropriate to transfer and activate a clip from the former to the respective service provisioning device, e.g. based on http, sql, ftp.

Access to the user interface is secured, e.g. by username and password. Every user of the apparatus has its own username and password. The general structure of the user interface is the same for all users but the content of the user interface is user specific.

The user interface provides access to the functions of the clip management application. On top level, i.e. on the user's main page, these are:

— managing and archiving of clips; - making clips available (producing, purchasing, configuring, receiving from outside) ;

— providing of clips to the service provisioning devices providing a clip telecommunication service and, depending on the service provisioning device, activating them; - distributing clips to other users.

These functions are accessible from a folder structure, e.g. on the left-hand side of the user main page, and a menu bar at the top of the users main page. In detail, the folder structure comprises the following main folders:

— "My Content" (clip and file management) ;

— "My Clip Shaker" (clip production and configuration) ;

— "My Clipstore" (purchasing of clips from a webshop) :

In the present embodiment, the options for the provision of clips to a service provisioning device and their activation may be accessed from the menu bar only.

In the following, the functions will be described at a greater detail.

The apparatus comprises a storage system for clips, in the user's main page associated with the folder "My content". The user may freely manage the subfolder structure of the folder "My Content". In particular, he may create folders and sub-folders and (re) name them arbitrarily within the limits of the operating system of the apparatus. In general, the user may store clips arbitrarily within the folders but it is preferred that the user keeps to certain rules to facilitate the management of his clips. In the following, such a structure is described.

According to Fig. 2, the folder "My Content" comprises folders "My clips", "My Music", "My Video" and "My voice clips" .

Within the folder "My clips", finished clips are stored that may be readily used within a clip telecommunication service. The folder "My clips" allows to store finished or purchased clips in different folders according to different categories. E.g., there may be folders related to different kinds of absence messages or related to the season (Christmas, Oktoberfest, etc.). These clips may be activated when appropriate.

The menu items "My music", "My video", and "My voice clips" allow the user to store fragment clips for the production of new clips. The clips may be purchased from the webshop, or received by e-mail, either from the user himself or from another person. Thus, users may exchange clips. After receipt of an e-mail including a clip, the clip may be copied to the relevant folder by "drag & drop". Furthermore, predefined clips for specific users, e.g. the employees of a company, may be stored. To facilitate this, in one embodiment, the users are grouped in user groups.

In one embodiment, the folders comprise links to the clips instead of the clips themselves and the clips are stored separately. Thus, the organization of the storage can be optimized and be different from the folder structure. Also, two users may use the same clip without storing it twice.

In the folder "My music", licensed and unlicensed music may be stored that can be reused in different clips when desired by the user. E.g. the music may be related to the seasons (Christmas, Chinese New Year, etc.) or related to the long-term and short-term preferences of the user. Companies may store their corporate music there, optionally in different variants, to provide the corporate music to their employees when creating a new personalized clip.

Correspondingly, e.g. preferred videos, season-related videos and company videos may be stored in the folder "My Video". The video clips must not exceed a certain length and must have a predefined format.

In the folder "My voice clips" announcements or even sung texts may be stored that may be used e.g. as voice mail announcement or as ringtone. The announcements may be ordered from the webshop or spoken by the user via telephone or mobile phone. These last ones would be stored automatically as sound file in the folder "My Voice Clips".

Also, other digital content may be stored in one of the folders of "My Content", e.g. birthday congratulations spoken by the user and mixed with music. Such a clip may be sent to the birthday child by MMS (multimedia message service) .

According to Fig. 3, the folder "My Clip shaker" comprises the folders "My templates" and "Libraries". Here, the production of new clips is performed.

The user may modify clips on several layers and produce different kinds of clips. The layers are video, voice, and music, supplemented by a supporting layer "clip features" to modify e.g. volume, intro, and outro of the music. The music layer comprises two layers: On layer 1, music may be imported that pertains over the full clip and in layer 2, specific noise (e.g. fun noise) may be added at certain times. In general, any content element may be replaced by a placeholder building block or vice versa. Such placeholder building blocks may e.g. be used for later insertion of announcements such as a person's name, the name of a department, details of the service activation information such as holiday duration, a special seasonal greeting, and the like. To produce a clip, the user clicks on "New template" in the folder "My templates". A mask is opened to modify the clip. The user may import some clips from the folder "My content" and mix them. E.g. he may combine a self-spoken announcement from "My content" with a music clip of a license free library described below.

The user may also modify the clips purchased at the webshop and stored in "My content". E.g. the user may mix an announcement spoken by a professional speaker with seasonal music. I.e. the user may exchange the music element of the clip arbitrarily.

A user may be restricted in his selection of clips for producing a personalized clip. E.g. company users may only use the company music as background to their announcement.

Apart from combining several clips, the user may modify some settings of the clip such as the duration of music before or after an announcement (intro, outro) and its volume relative to the announcement. Modified but not finished clips may be stored in one of the template folders of "My clip shaker". After a clip has been finished, the user may store the clip in a folder of "My Content", and/or import it immediately to a service provisioning device, e.g. his voice mailbox. Further, it may be send via e-mail.

The folder "Libraries" comprises libraries from where the user may import different kinds of clips for the production of his personalized clips free of charge. For this, the user clicks on a library item, selects a clip from the library, and imports it into one of the folders of "My Content" for further use or directly into the mask of clip shaker to modify a clip (e.g. from "New template") for immediate use. The libraries may have different content. They may comprise special content for specific customers, e.g. VIP customers.

According to Fig. 4, the folder "My Clipstore" offers the following subfolders: "Mailbox Greetings", "Ringtones", "Videos", "Music", "Birthday Greetings", each of them comprising further subfolders, e.g. for different categories .

From the folder "My Clipstore" the user may purchase clips from a webstore. It may comprise finished clips as well as fragment clips for further use in the production of personalized clips. Apart from predefined general announcements e.g. for voice mail boxes, the webstore may offer recording specific announcements by a professional speaker, e.g. for a company. These announcements will be provided to the specific user(s) in the folder "My mailbox greetings" .

Furthermore, the webstore may be connected to other (third party) webstores such as music providing webstores to offer further content to the user.

The folder may further comprise a button in the horizontal menu bar forwarding the user to a special area, e.g. related to special occasions (football events, Christmas, etc . ) .

The finished clips may be used in several ways within the telecommunication system. The import to the corresponding service provisioning system and the activation of the clip must be started from the menu bar of the main page of the user or in some cases context-sensitively . The user has several options for an activation of a clip. E.g. mailbox announcements may be activated depending on date and time of the day. Thus, the user may activate and deactivate at once an absence message for several times of a day if he has several meetings on that day. Also, the user may activate and deactivate his holiday announcement replacing his standard announcement in one operation. The relevant clip is then automatically sent and activated to the voice mail system.

The automatic activation and deactivation is controlled by the service activation information. The service activation information is allocated to a clip, a user and a clip telecommunication service. I.e. all the pieces of service activation information comprised in a system may be visualized in a three-dimensional room with clip identification, user identification and clip telecommunication service identification as axes. In different embodiments, the service activation information is stored e.g. in a database, a file system or in tables of a spreadsheet program.

In one embodiment, the service activation information stores the date and time, when the allocated clip is to be activated. If another clip is to be activated, the first clip is replaced by the other clip in the service provisioning system. The service activation information may comprise several activation times when the clip has to be activated several times, as described above with respect to the user with several meetings.

In some embodiments, the service activation information may also comprise a flag to identify a currently active clip. In another embodiment, the service activation information may comprise date and time for activation and deactivation of a clip for a clip telecommunication service. In this case, if no other clip is activated for a user and a clip telecommunication service, a default clip will be activated. The default clip may be predefined by the user or predefined for a group of users, e.g. the members of a company.

In another embodiment, where the service provisioning system of the telecommunication network can store several clips simultaneously, the clip management apparatus provides several clips to the service provisioning system at once and activates or deactivates them based on the service activation information.

Ringtones and video-ringtones may be sent via MMS to the mobile phone and activated there by the user.

The MMS may be sent to another user of a mobile phone, too. This is supported by a function "send to a friend". Here, the user may optionally store a list of names and mobile phone numbers, to whom the user want to send ringtones or video-ringtones .

The MMS to the user or another user may be sent instantaneously on the corresponding user action or at a time configured within the service activation information. Thus, a user may send e.g. a special ringtone as a birthday present to another user, even if he is not connected to the clip management apparatus at that time.

Furthermore, the user may send and receive e-mails including clips and further process the received clips as any other stored clip. In some embodiments, some of the functions available on the web-based user interface are also provided on a correspondingly adapted user interface for a mobile phone, e.g. via WAP (wireless application protocol).

Described above are an apparatus, a method and a computer program product to administrate clips for a clip telecommunication service using a clip, wherein a clip comprises at least one of audio and video data. The clips can be transferred and activated on a service provisioning system of a telecommunication system providing a clip telecommunication service based on service activation information allocated to clip, a user and a service. Personalized clips may be configured based on other clips. A clip may be provided to other users. Clips may be supplied to the clip management apparatus by the user or another user, preconfigured in the apparatus, or purchased.

It is to be understood that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, but various variations and modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims .

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising a storage means configured to store a clip as a stored clip and to store a service activation information, wherein a clip is defined by comprising at least one of audio data and video data, a clip management means configured to manage the service activation information by way of user action, wherein the service activation information is allocated to the stored clip, the user and a clip telecommunication service configurable to use said clip, and a clip provisioning means configured to provide, based on the service activation information, said stored clip to a service provisioning device of a telecommunication system configured to provide the clip telecommunication service.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the clip telecommunication service comprises at least one of a mailbox greeting service, a ringtone service, a ring back tone service, a video ringtone service, a video ring back tone service, an outbound greeting service, an email service, a download service, a sound format conversion service, a video format conversion service, as well as a timer delivery service.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 or claim 2, further comprising a clip configuration means configured to arrange a personalized clip based on at least one stored clip, wherein the storage means is further configured to store the personalized clip as a stored clip, and/or wherein the clip provisioning means is further configured to provide the personalized clip to a service provisioning device based on a user action.

4. The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the clip configuration means is configured to arrange the personalized clip by way of user operation including one or more selected from a group comprising adding two or more stored clips, amending a stored clip, adding individual music to a stored clip, adding one or more audio or video files to a stored clip, adding placeholder building blocks, replacing placeholder building blocks, and adding uploaded user-edited clips and/or audio or video files to at least one stored clip.

5. The apparatus according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the apparatus is arranged such that the clip may be supplied to the apparatus by the user or by another user or may be preconfigured in the system or may be purchased by the user.

6. The apparatus according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the clip provisioning means is further configured to provide the clip to a service provisioning device based on a user action.

7. The apparatus according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the service activation information is time dependent .

8. The apparatus according to any one of the preceding claims, further comprising a clip authorization means configured to manage a utilization right of the user to the stored clip; an authorization means configured to manage and control an authorization of the user; and an admission means configured to admit the user to utilize the stored clip if the authorization and the utilization right match.

9. The apparatus according to any one of the preceding claims, further comprising an authentication means configured to manage and control an authentication of the user, wherein the clip configuration means is further configured to arrange the personalized clip including a clip that is predetermined based on the authentication of the user.

10. The apparatus according to any one of the preceding claims, further comprising a web-based user interface configured to be operated by means of a hypertext transport protocol.

11. A method, comprising storing a clip as a stored clip, wherein a clip is defined by comprising at least one of audio data and video data; allocating a service activation information to the stored clip, the user and a clip telecommunication service configurable to use said clip, and storing the service activation information; managing the service activation information by way of user action; and providing, based on the service activation information, said stored clip to a service provisioning device of a telecommunication system configured to provide the clip telecommunication service.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the clip telecommunication service comprises at least one of a mailbox greeting service, a ringtone service, a ring back tone service, a video ringtone service, a video ring back tone service, an outbound greeting service, an email service, a download service, a sound format conversion service, a video format conversion service, as well as a timer delivery service.

13. The method according to claim 11 or claim 12, further comprising arranging a personalized clip based on at least one stored clip; and at least one of storing the personalized clip as a stored clip; and providing the personalized clip to the service provisioning system based on a user action.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein arranging the personalized clip by way of user operation includes one or more selected from a group comprising adding two or more stored clips, amending a stored clip, adding individual music to a stored clip, adding one or more pre-configured audio or video files to a stored clip, adding placeholder building blocks, replacing placeholder building blocks, and adding uploaded user-edited clips and/or audio or video files to at least one stored clip.

15. The method according to any of the claims 11 to 14, further comprising any of supplying the clip by the user or by another user; preconfiguring the clip in the apparatus; and purchasing the clip by the user.

16. The method according to any of the claim 11 to 15, further comprising providing the clip to the service provisioning device based on a user action.

17. The method according to any of the claims 11 to 16, wherein the service activation information is time dependent .

18. The method according to any one of the claims 11 to 17, further comprising managing a utilization right of the user to the stored clip; managing and controlling an authorization of the user; and admitting the user to utilize the stored clip if the authorization and the utilization right match.

19. The method according to any one of the claims 11 to 18, further comprising predetermining a clip for utilization of the user; managing and controlling an authentication of the user; and arranging the personalized clip including the predetermined clip.

20. A computer program product embodied on a computer- readable medium, comprising program code means which perform, when run on a computer, the method according to any of claims 11 to 19.