Patent ID: 7206602

Claim:
A wireless telephone for initiating, receiving and conducting telephone calls via a wireless link to a base station, comprising: a user interface for interfacing with a user; at least one sensor for inputting an analog electrical signal indicative of one or more parameters of a surrounding thereof; at least one device identification module for identifying a type of the sensor from which the analog electrical signal was input; at least one analog-to-digital converter for converting the analog electrical signal into a digital signal; at least one signal processing module for processing the digital signal based on the type of the sensor identified by the device identification module, so as to provide summary information; and at least one output interface for at least one of: (i) transmitting the summary information via the wireless link and (ii) providing the summary information to the user via the user interface, wherein the analog electrical signal is converted by time-sharing the analog-to-digital converter within the wireless telephone.