Patent ID: 7257426

Claim:
A system for enabling use of a hand-held wireless phone in a vehicle, comprising: a microphone; a radio frequency transceiver coupled to the vehicle and the microphone configured to communicate wirelessly and directly with the hand-held wireless phone external to the radio frequency transceiver and within the vehicle in accordance with a Bluetooth standard communications protocol; and an audio system coupled to the vehicle and coupled to the radio frequency transceiver and microphone, wherein the radio frequency transceiver, microphone and audio system are configured to provide two-way communication of audible signals between a vehicle occupant and the hand-held wireless phone via the radio frequency transceiver, wherein the system is configured to place a call via the hand-held wireless phone based on numbers spoken into the microphone and transmitted via the radio frequency transceiver to the hand-held wireless phone, and wherein the system is configured to receive audible signals at the radio frequency transceiver transmitted from the hand-held wireless phone and to provide the received audio signals to the vehicle occupant through the audio system.