Patent ID: 7991356

Claim:
A wireless handset comprising: a long range wireless transceiver that communicates with a telephone network over a long range wireless communication path; a telephony interface module, coupled to the long range transceiver, that sends and receives calls over the telephone network, the calls including first audio data generated in response to speech from a user of the wireless handset, and second audio data received over the telephone network; and a Bluetooth transceiver, coupled to the telephone interface module and coupleable to an external Bluetooth compatible device, that receives the first audio data from the external Bluetooth compatible device and that sends the second audio data to the external Bluetooth compatible device, the Bluetooth transceiver comprising: a first integrated circuit that includes a memory module that stores a plurality of operational instructions for implementing an upper stack protocol and a lower stack protocol of a Bluetooth protocol, a processing module that executes the plurality of operational instructions, and a first interface module; and a second integrated circuit, wherein the second integrated circuit does not include a dedicated processor, wherein the second integrated circuit includes a second interface module that couples data to and from the first interface module, a RF transceiver that modulates a first baseband signal to produce a transmitted RF signal, and that demodulates a received RF signal to produce a second baseband signal, and a hardware state machine that performs real-time intensive tasks separate from the processing module, wherein the hardware state machine generates the first baseband signal based on data received from the first interface module via the second interface module and generates data based on the second baseband signal to send to the first interface module via the second interface module.