Patent ID: 8660605
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A desktop telephone device comprising: a full-sized telephone handset coupled to the telephone base unit, wherein the full-sized telephone handset comprising a microphone and a speaker, wherein the microphone is configured to receive audio data from the user and wherein the speaker comprises a wide-band speaker configured to output audio data to the user; and a desktop telephone base unit comprising: wherein the full-sized telephone handset is coupled to the desktop telephone base unit via a telephone cord; wherein the physical interface is configured to allow the portable PBX communication and display unit to be removably coupled to the telephone base unit, and wherein the portable PBX communication and display unit is configured to transmit and receive data from a PBX server and to display PBX telephone calling status data to the user and to provide signaling to the PBX server in a manner selected from a group consisting of: in-band DTMF tones, IP packets.