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Timestamp: 2020-01-20 19:04:47
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US20060166705A1 - Battery management in a modular earpiece microphone combination - Google Patents
US20060166705A1
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This application claims the benefit of priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/646,270 entitled “BATTERY MANAGEMENT IN A MODULAR EARPIECE MICROPHONE COMBINATION,” by Nambirajan Seshadri, et al. filed on Jan. 24, 2005, and is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety for all purposes. This Application is related to the following applications: application Ser. No. 10/981,418 entitled “UNIVERSAL WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA DEVICE,” by Nambirajan Seshadri, et al., filed on Nov. 4, 2004, which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 10/856,430 entitled “PROVIDING A UNIVERSAL WIRELESS HEADSET,” by Nambirajan Seshadri, et al., filed May 28, 2004 which claims priority under 35 USC § 119(e) to Provisional Application No. 60/473,967 filed on May 28, 2003; and application Ser. No. 10/981,418 is also a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 10/856,124 filed May 28, 2004 which claims priority under 35 USC § 119(e) to Provisional Application No. 60/473,675 filed May 28, 2003; Application Ser. No. 10/976,300 entitled “MODULAR WIRELESS MULTIMEDIA DEVICE,” by Nambirajan Seshadri, et al., filed on Oct. 27, 2004, which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 10/856,124 entitled “MODULAR WIRELESS HEADSET AND/OR HEADPHONES,” filed May 28, 2004 which claims priority under 35 USC § 119(e) to Provisional Application No. 60/473,675, filed on May 28, 2003; and application Ser. No. 10/976,300 is also a continuation-in-part of Application No. 10/856,430 filed May 28, 2004 which claims priority under 35 USC §119(e) to Provisional Application No. 60/473,967 filed May 28, 2003; application Ser. No. ______ entitled “MODULAR EARPIECE/MICROPHONE THAT ANCHORS VOICE COMMUNICATIONS,” by Nambirajan Seshadri, et al., filed on May 3, 2005, which claims priority under 35 USC § 119(e) to Provisional Application No. 60/656,828 filed on Feb. 25, 2005, application Ser. No. ______ Entitled “HANDOVER OF CALL SERVICED BY MODULAR EARPIECE/MICROPHONE BETWEEN SERVICING BASE PORTIONS,” by Nambirajan Seshadri, et al., filed on May 3, 2005, which claims priority under 35 USC § 119(e) to Provisional Application No. 60/653,234 filed on Feb. 15, 2005; application Ser. No. ______ entitled “MODULAR EARPIECE/MICROPHONE (HEADSET) OPERABLE TO SERVICE VOICE ACTIVATED COMMANDS,” by Nambirajan Seshadri, et al., filed on May 3, 2005, which claims priority under 35 USC § 119(e) to Provisional Application No. 60/______ filed on Apr. 22, 2005; application Ser. No. ______ entitled “PAIRING MODULAR WIRELESS EARPIECE/MICROPHONE (HEADSET) TO A SERVICED BASE PORTION AND SUBSEQUENT ACCESS THERETO,” by Nambirajan Seshadri, et al., filed on May 3, 2005, which claims priority under 35 USC § 119(e) to Provisional Application No. 60/646,437 filed on Jan. 24, 2005; application Ser. No. ______ entitled “MANAGING ACCESS OF MODULAR WIRELESS EARPIECE/MICROPHONE (HEADSET) TO PUBLIC/PRIVATE SERVICING BASE STATION,” by Nambirajan Seshadri, et al., filed on May 3, 2005, which claims priority under 35 USC § 119(e) to Provisional Application No. 60/646,235 filed on Jan. 24, 2005; application Ser. No. ______ entitled “EARPIECE/MICROPHONE (HEADSET) SERVICING MULTIPLE INCOMING AUDIO STREAMS,” by Nambirajan Seshadri, et al., filed on May 3, 2005, which claims priority under 35 USC § 119(e) to Provisional Application No. 60/646,272 filed on Jan. 24, 2005; application Ser. No. ______ entitled “INTEGRATED AND DETACHABLE WIRELESS HEADSET ELEMENT FOR CELLULAR/MOBILE/PORTABLE PHONES AND AUDIO PLAYBACK DEVICES,” by Josephus A. Van Engelen, et al., filed on May 3, 2005, which claims priority under 35 USC § 119(e) to Provisional Application No. 60/646,465 filed on Jan. 24, 2005, all of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety for all purposes.
Base unit 16 may also directly couple the headset to voice communication networks such as radio, cellular, wireless voice or packet data, public switched telephone networks (PSTN), private branch exchanges or others known to those skilled in the art. Although shown as being external to earpiece 12, transceivers 13 and 1 and their associated antennas 5 may be integrated within earpiece 12 and microphone 14. Base unit 16 is operable to establish a wireless pathway to earpiece 12 and/or microphone 14. This pathway may be direct or via another wireless component and pathway, such as pathway 21. For example, wireless microphone 14 may communicate via base unit 16 through a wireless pathway between earpiece 12 and base unit 16. Similarly, wireless earpiece 12 could communicate with base unit 16 through wireless microphone 14. Microphone 14 may communicate with the base unit 16 or earpiece 12 using transceiver (or transmitter) 15 of FIG. 2 via communication pathway 20 or 21, respectively. Either or both earpiece 12 and microphone 14 may have a user interface 22. If the communication pathways are established in accordance with the Bluetooth specification, communication resources 18, 20, and 21 may be different timeslot allocations on the same synchronous connection orientated (SCO) link, or may be separate SCO links.
Devices 30-37 may further include a wireless LAN (WLAN) RF interface 39. The wireless LAN RF interfaces 39 may be constructed in accordance with one or more versions of IEEE802. 11 (a), (b), and/or (g) or other WLAN protocol known to those skilled in the art. Accordingly, each of the WLAN RF interfaces 39 include an RF transceiver that may operate in the 2.4 gigahertz range and/or in the 5.25 or 5.75 gigahertz range and further includes baseband processing to modulate and demodulate data that is transceived over the corresponding wireless communication link.
Once the piconet is configured and trusted relationships are established, receiver module 41 receives inbound RF signal 68 from base unit 16 via antenna 46. Bandpass filter 48 filters the received RF signal 68 which are subsequently amplified by low noise amplifier 50. Down converter 52 converts the filtered and amplified RF signal 68 into low intermediate frequency (IF) signal 70 based on a local oscillator 54. Low IF signals 70 may have a carrier frequency at DC rangirng to a few megahertz.
Processing module 45 receives low IF signals 70 and converts the low IF signals 70 into digital signals via ADC 56. Processing module 45 may be a single processing device or a plurality of processing devices. Such a processing device may be a microprocessor, micro-controller, digital signal processor, microcomputer, central processing unit, field programable gate array, programmable logic device, state machine, logic circuitry, analog circuitry, digital circuitry, and/or any device that manipulates signals (analog and/or digital) based on operational instructions. The memory (not shown) may be a single memory device or a plurality of memory devices. Such a memory device may be a read-only memory, random access memory, volatile memory, non-volatile memory, static memory, dynamic memory, flash memory, and/or any device that stores digital information. Note that when processing module 58 implements one or more of its functions via a state machine, analog circuitry, digital circuitry, and/or logic circuitry, the memory storing the corresponding operational instructions is embedded with the circuitry comprising the state machine, analog circuitry, digital circuitry, and/or logic circuitry.
a wireless microphone having a first receptacle operable to receive the tether; and
a wireless earpiece having a second receptacle operable to receive the tether, wherein the tether is operable to couple the wireless microphone and wireless earpiece, and wherein at least one of the wireless earpiece and wireless microphone further comprises:
a portable power supply operable to power the wireless headset.
2. The modular wireless headset of claim 1, wherein both the wireless microphone and wireless earpiece comprise a portable power supply operable to power the wireless headset, and wherein a power management circuit is operable to allocate shared power supplies between the wireless earpiece and wireless microphone when coupled with the tether.
provide power to operate the modular wireless headset or recharge
portable power supplies of modular wireless headset through the physical coupling.
4. The modular wireless headset of claim 3, wherein wireless microphone and wireless earpiece physically couple to receptacle(s) within the base unit.
7. The modular wireless headset of claim 1, wherein the tether comprises an adapter operable to physically couple the modular wireless headset to an external power supply.
8. The modular wireless headset of claim 7, wherein the adapter comprises a universal serial bus (USB) connector operable to physically couple the modular wireless headset to an external power supply via a USB port.
physically coupling a wireless microphone and a wireless earpiece of the modular wireless headset with a tether;
sharing power from at least one portable power supply between the wireless microphone and wireless earpiece through the tether;
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the wireless microphone and wireless earpiece each further comprise a portable power supply operable to:
operate the modular wireless headset; and
recharge the portable power supply having a lesser charge from the portable power supply having a greater charge through the tether.
13. The method of claim 11, wherein the base unit comprises a wireless terminal, and wherein the base unit is operable to:
14. The method of claim 13, wherein the wireless microphone and wireless earpiece physically couple to receptacle(s) within the base unit.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein the receptacle(s) are within the base unit's portable power supply.
16. The method of claim 10, wherein the modular wireless headset is operable to physically couple to an external portable power supply, and wherein the external portable power supply comprises:
17. The method of claim 16, wherein the base unit comprises the external portable power supply.
18. The method of claim 10, wherein the tether comprises an adapter operable to physically couple the modular wireless headset to an external power supply.
19. The method of claim 18, wherein the adapter comprises a universal serial bus (USB) connector operable to physically couple the modular wireless headset to an external power supply via a USB port.
20. The method of claim 10, wherein the servicing network is selected from the group consisting of:
21. A modular wireless headset operable to support voice communications, comprising:
a wireless earpiece having a first receptacle operable to receive the tether; and
a wireless microphone having a second receptacle operable to receive the tether, wherein the tether is operable to couple the wireless microphone and wireless earpiece, and wherein at least one of the wireless earphone and the wireless microphone further comprises:
a portable power supply operable to power the wireless microphone, and operable to power the wireless earpiece when the wireless earpiece and wireless microphone are coupled with the tether.
22. The modular wireless headset of claim 21, wherein the base unit comprises a wireless terminal, and wherein the base unit is operable to:
23. The modular wireless headset of claim 24, wherein wireless microphone and wireless earpiece physically couple to receptacle(s) within the base unit.
24. The modular wireless headset of claim 23, wherein the modular wireless headset is operable to physically couple to an external portable power supply, and wherein the external portable power supply comprises:
25. The modular wireless headset of claim 21, wherein the tether comprises a universal serial bus (USB) connector operable to physically couple the modular wireless headset to an external power supply via a USB port.
26. The modular wireless headset of claim 21, wherein the base unit communicatively couples the modular wireless headset to a servicing network, and wherein the servicing network is selected from the group consisting of:
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