Patent ID: 8489151

Claim:
A modular wireless headset operable to support voice communications, comprising: a wireless microphone operable to detachably couple to a base unit and coupled to receive first audible signals from a user and provide the first audible signals to the base unit; a wireless earpiece operable to physically directly and detachably couple to the wireless microphone and the base unit and coupled to receive second audible signals from the base unit and provide the second audible signals to the user, the wireless earpiece and the wireless microphone each operable to separately detach from the base unit each of the wireless microphone and the wireless earpiece further including a portable power supply; and a power control circuit operable to select a charging power supply from the portable power supplies of the wireless earpiece and the wireless microphone based on a current charge of the portable power supplies, the charging power supply recharging the other portable power supply when the wireless earpiece and the wireless microphone are physically coupled.