Patent ID: 8295889

Claim:
An assembly for a sound reproduction apparatus included with a communications apparatus, the assembly including: an ear bud earphone that anchors to an ear of a user when the earphone is inserted into an ear canal of the ear of the user; a cable of the ear bud earphone, a portion of the cable being attached to a reel axle onto which the cable is windable, the reel axle being connected to a revolution counter which tracks a number of revolutions of the reel axle in a first direction, the revolution counter being reset to zero when the cable is fully wound onto the reel axle; and a first end of the cable being functionally connected to the communications apparatus to enable sound signals to be reproduced in the ear bud earphone; wherein the revolution counter activates both a control to receive an incoming call to the communications apparatus, and a microphone on the communications apparatus when the revolution counter counts a predetermined number of revolutions of the reel axle rotating in the first direction, wherein when receiving the incoming call to the communications apparatus, an audible feedback is generated for the user to indicate that the incoming call is being answered.