Patent ID: 7782876

Claim:
A method, comprising: utilizing a wired data terminal directly connected using a local hardwire connection to a voice data gateway to provide one or more enhanced telephony functions to a cordless handset via the voice data gateway, wherein the cordless handset is part of a WLAN that includes the voice data gateway, wherein at least a portion of the one or more enhanced telephony functions is performed at the wired data terminal, wherein providing the one or more enhanced telephony functions comprises providing a voice recognition function by: wirelessly communicating a digitized voice command from the cordless handset to the voice data gateway, sending the digitized voice command over the local hardwire connection to the wired data terminal, and receiving, at the voice data gateway, a processed voice command for execution, the processed voice command based upon processing of the digitized voice command at the wired data terminal and transmitted over the local hardwire connection; receiving at the voice data gateway a request from the cordless handset to retrieve content from a server; establishing a connection to the server; retrieving the content from the server at the voice data gateway; determining display capabilities of the cordless handset; formatting the content at the voice data gateway in accordance with the display capabilities; and sending the formatted content to the cordless handset, wherein the retrieving the content comprises: establishing an HTTP connection between the voice data gateway and the server; and using an HTTP protocol to download an HTML coded page; wherein the formatting the content comprises: parsing content from the HTML coded page; and formatting the parsed content for display in the cordless handset, wherein sending the formatted content to the cordless handset comprises wirelessly communicating the parsed content from the voice data gateway to the cordless handset.