Patent ID: 9078283
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A mobile convergence terminal comprising: a communication port configured to be connected to a plain old telephone service (POTS) phone; a subscriber line interface configured to generate a first POTS call based on an input to the POTS phone and/or provide a second POTS call to the POTS phone; a wireless wide area network (WWAN) transceiver configured to wirelessly communicate WWAN data via a WWAN protocol, wherein the WWAN data comprises a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) call; an application processor configured to perform a call conversion between the VoIP call and the POTS calls; a near field communication (NFC) processor configured to wirelessly control, via an NFC protocol, at least one mobile phone to make and/or receive a mobile call; a wireless local area network (WLAN) processor configured to wirelessly communicate data with a computing device via the WLAN protocol; and a main processor configured to selectively initiate either the VoIP call or the mobile call based at least in part on the input to the POTS phone and the first POTS call.