Patent ID: 6937875

Claim:
A mobile telephone, comprising a wireless network call handling unit having a sound output for audibly outputting sound information received from a call in progress; a wireless broadcast unit for broadcasting information distinguished from transmission/reception by the call handling unit; a user interface for receiving a share command from a user; a connection unit controlled by the user interface and arranged to supply information representing the sound information to the wireless broadcast unit, for rebroadcast of the information to one or more receivers in a neighborhood of the mobile telephone upon the share command, the information representing the sound information being broadcast via an inaudible medium; a wireless broadcast reception unit coupled to the sound output; the user interface being arranged for receiving a command of a first type from the user, the user interface being arranged to enable the sound output, upon receiving the command of the first type, to output sound decoded from information received by the wireless broadcast reception unit; the user interface also being arranged to receive a command of a second type from the user, the user interface being arranged to enable the call handling unit, in response to the command of the second type, to transmit, via the call, the sound information received from the wireless broadcast reception unit; and the call handling unit having a microphone for inputting input sound information for transmission via the call in combination with the sound information received by the wireless broadcast reception unit.