Patent ID: 8014816

Claim:
A mobile communication device communicating with a communication network, the mobile communication device comprising a microphone for receiving sounds of a user and converting the sounds into outgoing analog signals, a processor, and a system memory for storing system data from the processor, wherein the mobile communication device further comprises a data converter module comprising: an analog to digital converter sub-module, for converting the outgoing analog signals into outgoing digital sound data; and a memory, for storing the outgoing digital sound data; wherein the processor directly retrieves the outgoing digital sound data from the memory and converts the outgoing digital sound data into packets to be transmitted to the communication network; the mobile communication device further comprising a pulse module, for providing system clock pulses and sleep clock pulses; wherein the clock pulse module provides the system clock pulses to activate the processor and the sleep clock pulses to activate the data converter module when the mobile communication device is in a communication mode; and provides the sleep clock pulses to the processor to make the processor sleep when the mobile communication device is in a sleep mode.