Patent ID: 8818466

Claim:
A method for communicating home information, the method comprising: linking an earpiece with a router for wireless communications; receiving user preferences for sending communications between a wired telephone or one or more appliances and the earpiece, the user preferences are capable of specifying (i) types of alerts sent to the earpiece from the wired telephone and the one or more appliances including at least audible alerts, user recorded messages, and text-to-voice messages, and (ii) conditions for communicating the alerts; downloading at least some of the user preferences from the router to the earpiece; alerting the earpiece of incoming communications through the wired telephone in communication with the router according to the user preferences; connecting the earpiece to the wired telephone for enabling voice communications in response to user input to accept a call; and sending one of the alerts indicating a status of one or more appliances in communication with the router to the earpiece according to the user preferences.