Patent ID: 8681775

Claim:
A telephonic switching system for a customer premises comprising: a network interface device comprising a splitter and a switch, the switch having an output connected to a home wiring network, the switch to selectively provide one of a first analog voice signal or a second analog voice signal to the home wiring network via the output, the splitter to split a combined voice and digital signal into the first analog voice signal and digital signal, the splitter to provide the first analog voice signal to the switch separately from the digital signal; and a first digital logic device separate from the network interface device, the first digital logic device to receive the digital signal from the splitter, convert the digital signal to the second analog voice signal based on a first protocol type, and provide the second analog voice signal to the switch, the first digital logic device to generate a control signal to change the position of the switch from communicatively coupling the second analog voice signal to the home wiring network to communicatively coupling the first analog voice signal to the home wiring network based on a voice over Internet protocol switch configuration signal in the digital signal, and when the digital signal is based on a second protocol type, converting the digital signal to the second analog voice signal with a second digital logic device different from the first digital logic device.