Patent ID: 8767687

Claim:
A method for communication, comprising: receiving, at an access point: voice-over-IP (VoIP) data from a communication device over a first network, the access point and a wireless endpoint device functionally cooperating to process audio data included in the VoIP data in a distributed manner; and a communication from the wireless endpoint device over the first network indicating a subset of processing functions, as delegated by the wireless endpoint device from among a plurality of processing functions, to be performed, at the access point, wherein the subset of processing functions is otherwise performed by the wireless endpoint device; extracting, in the access point, the audio data included in the VoIP data; processing, in the access point, the extracted audio data utilizing the subset of processing functions to generate processed audio data; and communicating, from the access point, the processed audio data as non-VoIP formatted audio data to the wireless endpoint device over a second network, the second network being different from the first network, wherein the second network is a wireless network.