Patent ID: 8041299

Claim:
A communication base system comprising: a plurality of network-side transceivers, each transceiver in the set of network-side transceivers configured to communicate with a respective communication device; a set of user-side transceivers, each transceiver in the set of user-side transceivers configured to communicate with a headset; at least one communication path coupling a network-side transceiver in the plurality of network-side transceivers and a user-side transceiver in the set of user-side transceivers, and being configurable to provide communications between the network-side transceiver and the user-side transceiver; and a processing unit in communication with the communication path and being configured to process instructions, the instructions configured to enable communication between the headset and the communication device without the headset being associated with the communication device, the instructions further configured to enable simultaneous communication between a plurality of headsets and a plurality of communication devices, to switch a headset in the plurality of headsets from communication with a first communication device in the plurality of communication devices to communication with a second communication device in the plurality of communication devices, and to manage communications with the first and second communication devices.