Patent ID: 8774706

Claim:
A mobile wireless terminal, comprising: a wireless unit configured to connect to a wireless relay to make a voice communication with a phone network via the wireless relay, which is coupled between the mobile wireless terminal and the phone network; an audio codec to process the voice communication; and a processor unit coupled to the wireless unit and configured to: obtain a phone number from a user for an outgoing call to an external party in the phone network; connect to the wireless relay over a short-range wireless link; when the connection to the wireless relay is successful, establish a signaling connection on an asynchronous connection-oriented logical (ACL) transport channel, and a voice connection on a synchronous connection oriented (SCO) channel between the mobile wireless terminal and the wireless relay; send the dialed outgoing call to the wireless relay via the signaling connection; communicate with the external party via the wireless relay over the voice connection, wherein the processor unit is further configured to: support one of a transparent mode and a translation mode over the signaling connection; determine whether the user terminates the outgoing call; when the user terminates the outgoing call, notify the call termination to the wireless relay over the signaling connection such that the wireless relay can terminate the outgoing call.