Patent ID: 8170231

Claim:
An accessory for a portable communication device, comprising: a housing having front and back housing portions coupled together to form a spooling feature therebetween and having first and second cord retention features formed in an outer rim of one of the front and back housing portions, the housing enclosing a circuit substrate disposed therein; a first cord coupled to the spooling feature and configured to pass a speaker signal to between the circuit substrate and a speaker, the first cord having an intermediate portion thereof retained in the first cord retention feature, and being sized relative to the first cord retention feature to be received and secured by the first cord retention feature; a second cord coupled to the spooling feature and configured to pass a set of signals between the circuit substrate and a portable communication device, the second cord having an intermediate portion thereof retained in the second cord retention feature, and being sized relative to the second cord retention feature to be received and secured by the second cord retention feature; a clip, a push-to-talk (PTT) switch, and a microphone coupled to the housing, the second cord configured to provide an electrical interconnection between (i) the PTT switch, microphone, and speaker and (ii) the portable communication device; and the accessory providing PTT functionality, microphone functionality and user controllable adjustable cord lengths about the spooling feature via independent manual windings of the first and second cords about the spooling feature and a securing of the first and second cords via respective first and second cord retention features.