A system, method and apparatus for facilitating communication among a
number of distributed clients in a distributed network is disclosed. A
user, such as through a personal digital assistant device, may select one
or more sound messages for transmission to one or more other users in the
network. Each sound message may be preceded by a sound identifier which
identifies the sending user. Users may select or create their sounds
message and/or person sound identifiers. The sound messages will typically
be abbreviated melodies or note strings which are associated with certain
conversational messages.
