Patent ID: 7944380

Claim:
A wireless transceiving integrated circuit that services voice communications in a wireless network with at least one wireless device, the wireless transceiving integrated circuit comprising: a wireless interface that wirelessly communicates with the at least one wireless device to receive inbound packetized audio data from the at least one wireless device and to transmit outbound packetized audio data to the at least one wireless device; a transcoder operably coupled to the wireless interface, wherein the transcoder receives the inbound packetized audio data and converts the inbound packetized audio data to inbound Pulse Code Modulated (PCM) audio data, and wherein the transcoder receives outbound PCM audio data and converts the outbound PCM audio data to the outbound packetized audio data; and a switch box operably coupled between the transcoder and a PCM bus, the switch box including: a plurality of switch box inputs that receive the inbound PCM audio data and outbound PCM bus audio data; a plurality of switch box outputs that produce the outbound PCM audio data and the inbound PCM bus audio data; and signal selection and combining circuitry operably coupled to the plurality of switch box inputs and to the plurality of switch box outputs that controllably combines at least two switch box inputs of the plurality of the switch box inputs to produce one switch box output of the plurality of switch box outputs.