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Network-adaptive function control method for dual-mode mobile terminal

AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

InventorsKwang Taek Woo, Chang Taek Kang

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Abstract

A network-adaptive function control method is provided for a dual-mode mobile terminal. The network-adaptive function control method for a dual-mode mobile terminal supports communication via first and second-type networks includes registering at least one function as a network-adaptive; determining, when a function is requested to be activated, whether the requested function is the network-adaptive function. If it is determined that the requested function is the network-adaptive function, it if determined whether the mobile terminal is in the first-type network; and activating, if the mobile terminal is in the first-type network, the requested function in association with the first-type network. The network-adaptive function control method of the present invention allows registering portable IP network-friendly functions that are served only in a portable IP network domain but not in the cellular network domain, thereby restricting handover to the costly cellular network, resulting in reduction of communication cost.

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Dependent claims

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;
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(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.

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A network-adaptive function control method for a dual-mode mobile terminal supporting communication via a first-type network and a second-type network, said method comprising:

detecting that the mobile terminal has departed from a communicative range of the first-type network;
determining, in response to the detection, whether at least one network-adaptive function is registered to enable data communication exclusively through the first-type network;
stopping, if the at least one network-adaptive function is registered to enable data communication exclusively through the first-type network, the data communication of the at least one network-adaptive function;
detecting that the mobile terminal enters into the first-type network;
determining, if the mobile terminal enters into the first-type network, whether the data communication stopped without completion in a previous session;
and
restarting, if the data communication stopped without completion, the data communication from a point at which the data communication is stopped,
wherein the at least one network-adaptive function is selected and registered by a user of the dual-mode mobile terminal, and performs data communication only via one of the first-type network and the second-type network, and
wherein the at least one network-adaptive function comprises an IP friendly function.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/977,316Filed 24 Oct 2007
Priority: KR 10-2006-010428026 Oct 2006
Published: US 2008/0101293 A11 May 2008
Granted: 12 Aug 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H04W 88/06
Terminal devices: adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals
H04M 1/72403
User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones: with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
H04M 1/72457
With means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions: according to geographic location
H04M 1/72469
User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones: for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed…