Patent ID: 7220143

Claim:
An overlay for a wall jack adapted to receive a telephony plug of a specific type, comprising: a housing having an interior face and an exterior face; a telephony plug on the interior face of the housing, the telephony plug suitable for insertion into the wall jack; a telephony socket integrated to the housing and accessible from the exterior face of the housing, the telephony socket being adapted to receive a telephony plug of the specific type, wherein when receiving the telephony plug of the specific type, the telephony socket providing a resistance to tension-induced disconnect of the telephony plug of the specific type; a high-speed connector integrated to the housing for connection to a mating connector leading to a digital apparatus, the high-speed connector and the mating connector being rotatably secured together, thereby providing a resistance to tension-induced disconnect of the mating connector; the resistance to tension-induced disconnect of the mating connector being greater than the resistance to tension-induced disconnect of the telephony plug of the specific type; a combiner-splitter unit electrically connected to the telephony plug, to the telephony socket and to the high-speed connector.