Method for connecting to a wireless internet service

Abstract

In a wireless data communication network, a mobile terminal is reconnected to a contents provider, when a connection established between the mobile terminal and the contents provider is interrupted or after a completion of the downloading of contents, by using return address information and contents address information including addresses of the contents provider and a web page including information relating to the downloaded contents, respectively. A WML (wireless markup language) script including the contents address information and the return address information is provided to the mobile terminal before initiating the downloading of the contents. In this way, the mobile terminal can easily be reconnected to the contents provider when the connection established between the mobile terminal and the contents provider is interrupted due to network congestion or the mobile terminal leaving the service coverage area.

1 . A method for connecting a mobile terminal to a contents provider having a plurality of multimedia contents through a wireless data communication network, wherein the contents provider includes a media server for providing the multimedia contents to the mobile terminal, comprising the steps of: 
 (a) transmitting to the mobile terminal data including an address of contents and return address information, upon one of contents listed in a web page provided by the contents provider being selected by a user of the mobile terminal, wherein the return address information indicates an address of the contents provider;    (b) connecting the mobile terminal to the media server by using the address of the contents;    (c) checking whether the connection established between the mobile terminal and the media server is interrupted while the mobile terminal is downloading the selected contents from the media server; and    (d) reconnecting the mobile terminal to the contents provider by using the return address information, if the connection is found interrupted in step (c).    
   
   
       2 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the data is a WML (wireless markup language) script.  
   
   
       3 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the return address information is included in a header of the selected contents transmitted from the media server to the mobile terminal.  
   
   
       4 . A method for connecting a mobile terminal to a contents provider having a plurality of multimedia contents through a wireless data communication network, wherein the contents provider includes a media server for providing the multimedia contents to the mobile terminal, comprising the steps of: 
 (a) transmitting to the mobile terminal data including an address of contents, contents address information, and return address information, upon one of contents listed in a web page provided by the contents provider being selected by a user of the mobile terminal, wherein the contents address information has an address of a web page including information relating to the selected contents and the return address information has an address of the contents provider;    (b) connecting the mobile terminal to the media server by using the address of the contents;    (c) checking whether the connection established between the mobile terminal and the media server is interrupted while the mobile terminal is downloading the selected contents from the media server; and    (d) reconnecting the mobile terminal to the contents provider by using the return address information, if the connection is found interrupted in step (c); and    (e) connecting the mobile terminal to the web page corresponding to the contents address information, after a completion of the download of the selected contents.    
   
   
       5 . The method of  claim 4 , wherein the data is a WML (wireless markup language) script.  
   
   
       6 . The method of  claim 1 , wherein the return address information is included in a header of the selected contents transmitted from the media server to the mobile terminal.