Patent ID: 7363045

Claim:
A system for exchanging data and audio between a cellular telephone and a landline telephone, the system comprising: a cordless telephone base station having a first radio transceiver for wirelessly communicating with a cellular telephone using a short-range RF communications technology, a second radio transceiver for communicating with a cordless handset associated with the cordless telephone base station, and an audio router configured to send and receive audio signal communications with a short-range wireless communication protocol stack and transcoder, and to send and receive audio signal communications with a cordless protocol stack and transcoder; a man machine interface that includes at least one menu located in one or more of the cordless handset and base station and is configured to indicate the presence or absence of registered cellular telephones within a wireless communications range of the base station; and the cordless handset having a third cordless radio transceiver configured to communicate with the cordless telephone base station using cordless radio frequency communications, and wherein when the cellular telephone is within the wireless communication range of the first radio transceiver of the cordless telephone base station, the first radio transceiver and the second radio transceiver of the cordless telephone base station are activated to exchange data and audio with each other and the cordless handset communicates with the cellular telephone, wherein the exchange of audio is established between the cellular telephone and the telephone base station by using a short-range wireless communications headset profile embedded in the telephone base station of the landline telephone and the cellular telephone for exchanging audio packets when an audio exchange is required, and wherein the audio router is configured to couple, at least in part, the cellular telephone to the landline telephone base station.