Patent ID: 8528026

Claim:
An end user voice communication device, comprising: a memory to store computer instructions; and a controller coupled with the memory, wherein the controller is integrated with a landline phone, wherein the landline phone corresponds to a cordless phone communicatively coupleable to a base unit by way of a cordless phone protocol and a wireless data protocol, wherein the cordless phone protocol corresponds to a digital enhanced cordless telecommunications protocol, and wherein the wireless data protocol corresponds to a wireless fidelity protocol, and wherein the controller, responsive to executing the computer instructions, performs operations comprising: enabling a voice communication session with another end user voice communication device, wherein the voice communication session is established without routing the session through a set-top box; receiving a media program signal from the set-top box, the media program signal comprising a sampling of a media program presentable at least audibly by the set-top box, wherein the media program signal corresponds to digital signals representing the sampling of the media program; monitoring ambient sound that includes first and second portions, wherein the first portion corresponds to audio content of the media program being emitted by a display device coupled with the set top box, wherein the second portion is being emitted from a source other than the display device, wherein the media program corresponds to the audio content combined with video content; comparing the sampling with the ambient sound to generate a comparison of the sampling and the ambient sound that identifies a match between the media program signal and the ambient sound; detecting a delay between the media program signal and a matched portion of the ambient sound based on the comparison; detecting the first portion of the ambient sound that matches the media program signal by correlation; suppressing the first portion of the ambient sound based on the comparison of the sampling with the ambient sound during the voice communication session and based on the detecting of the delay, wherein the suppressing is performed utilizing a filter; suppressing the second portion of the ambient sound during the voice communication session; comparing spectral aspects of the monitored ambient sound to spectral aspects of the media program signal; suppressing the spectral aspects of the portion of the ambient sound that matches spectral aspects of the media program signal.