Apparatus, system and method of communicating voice traffic over a bluetooth link

A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one processor, enable the at least one processor to cause a first Bluetooth (BT) mobile device to:

• configure a Point-to-Point (P2P) voice link for voice communication between a first BT audio device and a second BT audio device via a first BT Short-Range (SR) link, a BT Long-Range (LR) link and a second BT SR link, wherein the first BT SR link to be between the first BT audio device and the first BT mobile device, the BT LR link to be between the first BT mobile device and a second BT mobile device, and the second BT SR link to be between the second BT mobile device and the second BT audio device, wherein configuring the P2P voice link comprises allocating a plurality of first SR time slots of an SR link connection period as an LR communication period for communication over the BT LR link;
• communicate a BT SR packet with the first BT audio device over the first BT SR link in one or more second SR time slots of the SR link connection period, the BT SR packet comprising a voice payload from one of the first and second BT audio devices to another one of the first and second BT audio devices;
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• communicate a BT LR packet with the second BT mobile device over the BT LR link during the LR communication period, the BT LR packet comprising the voice payload.

An apparatus of a first Bluetooth (BT) mobile device, the apparatus comprising:

• means for configuring a Point-to-Point (P2P) voice link for voice communication between a first BT audio device and a second BT audio device via a first BT Short-Range (SR) link, a BT Long-Range (LR) link and a second BT SR link, wherein the first BT SR link to be between the first BT audio device and the first BT mobile device, the BT LR link to be between the first BT mobile device and a second BT mobile device, and the second BT SR link to be between the second BT mobile device and the second BT audio device, wherein configuring the P2P voice link comprises allocating a plurality of first SR time slots of an SR link connection period as an LR communication period for communication over the BT LR link;
• means for communicating a BT SR packet with the first BT audio device over the first BT SR link in one or more second SR time slots of the SR link connection period, the BT SR packet comprising a voice payload from one of the first and second BT audio devices to another one of the first and second BT audio devices;
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• means for communicating a BT LR packet with the second BT mobile device over the BT LR link during the LR communication period, the BT LR packet comprising the voice payload.