Patent ID: 8817967

Claim:
A base station of a cordless telephone, the base station comprising: a transceiver configured to wirelessly communicate with a handset associated with the cordless telephone, and transmit a signal to the handset, while the handset is operating in a standby mode, to instruct the handset to exit the standby mode; a control module configured to establish a permanent virtual circuit with the handset, wherein the permanent virtual circuit includes one of a predetermined user datagram protocol (UDP) port or a negotiated UDP port, negotiate with the handset to determine a feature subset of the handset, and transmit packets to the handset via the permanent virtual circuit, wherein the packets transmitted to the handset are selected based on the feature subset of the handset; a connection handler configured to establish a switched virtual circuit with an endpoint device via a communications channel; and a media handler configured to (i) convert media packets received from the communications channel into a first digital audio compression format for transmission to the handset, and (ii) convert media packets received from the handset into a second digital audio compression format for transmission over the communications channel.