Patent ID: 7969918

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a wireless transceiver in a master communication device within a wireless local area network (LAN), a call from an originating telephone device outside the LAN; determining, at a master communication device, a telephone number of the originating telephone device and a slave communication device that the call is directed to; transmitting a control signal from a short-range wireless transceiver in a master communication device to a short-range wireless transceiver in a slave communication device having a wireless transceiver, the control signal comprising instructions for turning on the wireless transceiver in the slave communication device; turning off the wireless transceiver in the master communication device, after transmitting the control signal to the slave communication device; allowing the wireless transceiver in the slave communication device to use a wireless telephone line to communicate with the originating telephone device; receiving a status signal at the short-range wireless transceiver in the master communication device from the short-range wireless transceiver in the slave communication device indicating that communication between the wireless transceiver in the slave communication device and the originating telephone device is complete; turning on the wireless transceiver in the master communication device; transmitting a second status signal from the short-range wireless transceiver in the master communication device to the short-range wireless transceiver in the slave communication device indicating that the wireless transceiver of the master communication device is ON; and completing, at the master communication device, communication between the wireless transceiver in the master communication device and the originating telephone device.