Patent ID: 7757260

Claim:
A method of multi-tasking in a mobile terminal having a multimedia processor for video on demand (VOD) services, which comprises the steps of; setting and allocating a port number for the VOD services of the multimedia processor through access to a VOD server when a demand for VOD services is received; processing VOD data received through the set port number to deploy VOD services; determining whether a port number of data received during the VOD services is identical to the set port number and, if in the affirmative, recognizing the received data as the VOD data and thereby deploying the VOD services; recognizing the received data as general data and sending the general data to a mobile station modem (MSM) from the multimedia processor when the port number of the received data is not identical to the set port number; and processing the general data prior to being sent to the MSM, wherein, the deploying of the VOD services is performed essentially simultaneously with the processing of the general data in the MSM.