Patent ID: 8315624

Claim:
A hybrid cordless telephone system, comprising: a base unit; a plurality of wireless handsets, each wireless handset comprising a VoIP engine configured to initiate a telephone call to a called party through a wireless VoIP connection to the base unit; a system router in the base unit configured to receive via the wireless VoIP connection one or more data packets corresponding to the telephone call transmitted by one of the wireless handsets, and to forward the received data packets to the PSTN or to a data network based on a user selection; and a base unit processor configured to receive the data packets destined for the PSTN, wherein said system router comprises a proxy that provides termination for telephone calls destined for the PSTN and that reconfigures the data packets received from the wireless VoIP connection into data for transmission to the base unit processor, wherein the base unit processor comprises an analog front end configured to convert the data received from the proxy into analog signals for transmission over the PSTN, wherein a first wireless handset carries on a first telephone call over the PSTN, wherein a second wireless handset carries on a second telephone call over the data network, and wherein at least a portion of the first and second telephone calls are carried on simultaneously.