Patent ID: 7096048

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a plurality of portable communications devices from a plurality of bases, a plurality of earpieces, and a plurality of audio links, any one of the plurality of audio links being detachably mountable to any one of the plurality of bases, said method comprising: (a) selecting a first audio link from the plurality of audio links and selecting a first earpiece from the plurality of earpieces; (b) programming the first audio link to communicate with each one of the plurality of bases when mounted thereto; (c) programming one of the first earpiece and the first audio link such that the first earpiece is communicably linked to the first audio link; (d) repeating steps (a)-(c) for the remainder of the plurality of audio links and earpieces, thereby generating a plurality of pairs of associated earpieces and audio links; and (e) combining any one of the plurality of the pairs with any one of the plurality of the bases to produce an activated one of the plurality of communications devices.