Patent ID: 8364148

Claim:
A method for interworking in a wireless communication system, comprising: detecting presence of a wireless wide area network (WWAN) and a collocated one or more of a wireless local area network (WLAN) or a wireless personal area network (WPAN); selecting a wireless network from one of the WLAN or the WPAN for conducting a wireless transaction, wherein the selected wireless network comprises a network lacking a backbone infrastructure; wirelessly transmitting a first registration message from a mobile device to the WWAN requesting access information for the selected wireless network; receiving a second registration message from the WWAN, the second registration message comprising a token containing access information for the selected wireless network; transmitting the token from the mobile device to the selected wireless network to gain access to the selected wireless network; and conducting at least a part of the wireless transaction using the accessed selected wireless network, wherein selecting the wireless network further comprises selecting based on a number of access points associated with the selected wireless network, wherein the at least the part of the wireless transaction comprises multimedia content based on a user preference, and wherein the user preference is maintained by the selected wireless network.