Patent ID: 7944865

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a communication request signal identifying a wireless telephone apparatus at a wireless local area network (LAN) comprising a plurality of short-range wireless transceivers that transmit and receive radio signals within the wireless LAN, a plurality of wireless transceivers that transmit and receive communications via a wireless telephone connection, and a plurality of controllers that control the plurality of wireless transceivers, a master communication device; and a slave communication device; transmitting a control signal from the short-range wireless transceiver of the master communication device to the short-range wireless transceiver of the slave communication device; turning on, by the controller of the slave communication device, the wireless transceiver of the slave communication device after the transmitting; turning off, by the controller of the master communication device, the wireless transceiver of the master communication device after the transmitting; transmitting, after turning off the wireless transceiver of the master communication device, a first status signal from the short-range wireless transceiver of the master communication device to the short-range wireless transceiver of the slave communication device indicating that the wireless transceiver of the master communication device is OFF; receiving a second status signal at the short-range wireless transceiver of the master communication device from the short-range wireless transceiver of the slave communication device indicating that a wireless transceiver of the slave communication device is ON; allowing communication between the wireless transceiver of the slave communication device and the wireless telephone apparatus via a wireless telephone connection; and monitoring the slave communication device, at the master communication device, to determine whether control should be returned to the master communication device after the allowing.