Patent ID: 7308289

Claim:
A method of processing telephone calls using a first telephone and a second telephone each located within a vehicle and each interoperating with a vehicle audio system that is also located within the vehicle, the method comprising the steps of: providing a first call handled by the first telephone to a user via the vehicle audio system; notifying the user of a second call handled by the second telephone while the first call is active; processing an instruction from the user to suspend the first call and to provide the second call on the vehicle audio system, wherein the first call is placed in a hold queue within the vehicle audio system without terminating the first call; maintaining a connection between the hold queue in the vehicle audio system and the first telephone while the second call remains active to thereby continue the first call even though the first and second calls are handled by different telephones that are each located within the vehicle; and in response to a subsequent instruction from the user, restoring the first call from the hold queue and again providing the first call to the user via the vehicle audio system.