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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2020
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/10 (2006.01); H02J 7/02 (2016.01); H04B 5/00 (2006.01); H02J 50/10 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/10 (2013.01); H02J 7/02 (2013.01); H02J 50/10 (2016.02); H04B 5/0037 (2013.01); H04B 5/0075 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of performing hook switching on behalf of a wireless handset based on wireless charging. The method includes obtaining, by a power transmitter of a telephone base, a handset identifier provided by a wireless handset via a power receiver that is wirelessly coupled to the power transmitter for wireless charging of the wireless handset. The method further includes determining whether the handset identifier matches a stored identifier, and based, in part, on the handset identifier matching the stored identifier, performing, by the telephone base, hook switching on behalf of the wireless handset.