Patent ID: 8284740

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a wireless handset simultaneously operable in a wireless wide area network (WWAN) and at least one short-range wireless network, wherein said wireless handset is adapted to transmit and receive voice and/or data communications from at least one voice or data communication device via said at least one short-range wireless network and incorporate said voice or data communications into a single transmission over said (WWAN), wherein wireless handset mixes audio from said at least one voice or data communications device and sends it upstream into a WWAN as a single WWAN transmission, wherein said wireless handset is adapted to share voice or data communications from said (WWAN) to at least one voice or data communication device via said at least one short-range wireless network, and wherein said wireless handset distributes audio or data communications from the WWAN to said at least one voice or data communication device over said at least one short-range wireless network, to create a conference call environment.