A cordless telephone provides both basic and enhanced features that are accessible through the combination of a portable unit and an auxiliary recharge cradle, some of these features being heretofore available only at a base unit which combines a cordless telephone fixed station and a telephone answering...http://www.google.ca/patents/US5953656?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5953656 - Method and apparatus for remotely accessing a telephone answering device
