Patent ID: 7430604
Filing Date: 2008-09-30
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for accessing a wireless local area network in a telecommunications system, the system including at least one terminal and a plurality of networks, the method comprising: storing information sets describing settings used to access wireless local area networks and their associated resources in the at least one terminal; scanning for information related to names of available wireless local area networks using the at least one terminal; determining available information sets by comparing the information related to names of available wireless local area networks to the stored information sets; and accessing at least one wireless local area network based on settings described in the available information set, wherein the storing stores network names of wireless local area networks associated with the stored information sets, the scanning sends network identity requests and searches for network identity responses, and the determining available information sets determines the available information sets by comparing the stored network names to the scanned information related to names of available wireless local area networks; wherein the stored information sets comprise channel settings indicating whether at least one of (i) a used radio channel is automatically or manually selected and (ii) whether the stored information sets comprise operation mode settings indicating whether a used operation mode is an ad-hoc mode or an infrastructure mode.