Patent ID: 7890146

Claim:
A method of providing an Internet access service, comprising: (a) receiving, at a user terminal, an input signal for a numeric button, wherein the numeric button corresponds to a number and a character, wherein the user terminal is a mobile terminal or a personal digital assistant (PDA); (b) recognizing the input signal as a number and a character corresponding to the number; (c) displaying the number and the character on a number string display region and a character string display region of the user terminal, respectively, wherein the number and character string display regions have different respective locations on the user terminal; repeating (a) through (c) until there is any input signal for a function button; on receiving the input signal for the function button, determining when the function button is associated with the number string display region or the character string display region; and when the function button is associated with the character string display region, transmitting an Internet access request including a character string displayed on the character string display region to an Internet service access apparatus, wherein the character string comprises a plurality of characters, wherein the user terminal supports a plurality of languages, and wherein the method further comprises: performing a spelling check on the character string; when there is an incorrect spelling in the character string, converting the language of the character string into one of the languages that the user terminal supports; generating the Internet access request including the converted character string; and transmitting the Internet access request to the Internet service access apparatus.