Patent ID: 6169897
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
A mobile communications system which includes a plurality of radio base stations regularly transmitting area identification signals that uniquely identify individual radio service coverage areas thereof, a mobile terminal located in either one of the radio service coverage areas of the plurality of radio base stations, and a mobile communications switching system that interconnects the plurality of radio base stations and a public telecommunications network, the mobile communications system comprising: a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) list server, being connected to the mobile communications switching system, for storing a plurality of local URL lists addressed with different local representative URLs; storage means, disposed in the mobile terminal, for storing the local representative URLs associated with the plurality of area identification signals; URL retrieving means, disposed in the mobile terminal, for receiving the area identification signal from one of the plurality of radio base stations, and out of said storage means, retrieving one of the local representative URLs that is associated with the received area identification signal; representative URL transmission means, disposed in the mobile terminal, for transmitting the one of the local representative URLs retrieved by said URL retrieving means to said URL list server; list transmission means, disposed in the URL list server, for retrieving one of the plurality of local URL lists that corresponds to the local representative URL received from said representative URL transmission means, and transmitting the retrieved local URL list to the mobile terminal; and display means, disposed in the mobile terminal, for displaying the local URL list received from said list transmission means.