Patent ID: 8437296
Filing Date: 2013-05-07
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A mobile terminal, connected to wireless access points (APs) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) to communicate with a multimedia server and a web server, the multimedia server storing multimedia content, the web server storing a list of uniform resource locators (URLs) corresponding to types of the multimedia content, the mobile terminal comprising: a wireless communication module, operable to connect to one of the wireless APs connected to the web server when the mobile terminal enters coverage area of the WLAN to communicate with the web server and to retrieve the list of the URLs from the web server, wherein each of the URLs comprises a channel identifier allocated to a corresponding type of the multimedia content; a display module, operable to display the list of the URLs retrieved by the wireless communication module; a user interface module, operable to receive a selection of one of the URLs; a parser module, operable to parse the selected URL and retrieve a channel identifier from the selected URL; a switch module, operable to automatically switch the mobile terminal to a channel corresponding to the retrieved channel identifier of the selected URL; and a processor, operable to execute one or more computerized instructions for the wireless communication module, the display module, the user interface module, the parser module and the switch module; wherein the wireless communication module further connects to a wireless AP on the channel corresponding to the retrieved channel identifier of the selected URL to retrieve a type of the multimedia content corresponding to the selected URL from the multimedia server.