Patent ID: 8805436

Claim:
A network-adaptive function control method for a dual-mode mobile terminal supporting communication via a first-type network and a second-type network, comprising: (a) registering at least one selected function as being a network-adaptive function in order to control the at least one selected function to perform data communication exclusively via one of the first-type network and the second-type network, in which the network-adaptive function includes providing a changeable default comprising prompting of whether resumption of the network-adaptive function is desired upon a return to a communicative range of at least one of the first-type network and the second-type network that exclusively operates the network-adaptive function; (b) determining, in response to a request for a function to be activated, whether the requested function is the network-adaptive function registered in step (a); (c) determining, if the requested function is the network-adaptive function, whether the mobile terminal is within the communicative range of the first-type network or the second-type network that exclusively operates the network-adaptive function; and (d) activating the requested function, if the mobile terminal is within the communicative range, in association with one of the first-type network and the second-type network that exclusively operates the network-adaptive function; and rejecting performance of the requested function, if the mobile terminal is not within the communicative range, wherein the network-adaptive function controls IP-friendly applications to perform data communication exclusively through the first-type network.