Patent ID: 8391787

Claim:
A mobile terminal, comprising: a wireless communication unit; a display unit; and a controller configured to: display on the display unit a search list including at least one wireless device that has not been registered to a pairing list of wireless devices previously paired with the mobile terminal in response to an input for activating a wireless device search mode according to a preconfigured priority option, wherein a wireless device in the search list having a higher priority in the preconfigured priority option is displayed larger in size and closer in proximity to a center of the display unit than the wireless device in the search list having a lower priority in the preconfigured priority option, and wherein the wireless device search mode is automatically triggered without activation input when there is no wireless device registered to the pairing list; register a selected one of the at least one wireless device upon selection from the search list to the pairing list; display on the display unit a newly aligned pairing list of wireless devices that includes the wireless device previously paired with the mobile terminal and the selected one of the at least one wireless device upon activation of a wireless connection mode, wherein the pairing list includes respective PIN codes or passwords of the wireless device and the at least one wireless device; and automatically connect a specific wireless device among the wireless devices in the newly aligned pairing list to the mobile terminal upon selection of the specific wireless device from the newly aligned pairing list.