System and method for providing multimedia service using a mobile communication terminal

• US 20060262777A1
• Filed: 03/21/2006
• Published: 11/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Jeon-Man, Park, Young-Sik, Kim, Soon-Jin, Kim, Jeong-Dae, You, Hoe-Gun, Park, Kyung-Kyu
• Application Number:
  US11/385,163
• Publication Number:
  US 20060262777A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6131 involving transmission via a mobile phone network wireless downlink channel access H04W74/006

Abstract

A system and method for providing multimedia service using a mobile communication terminal comprising the steps of accessing a web server of an IP address in response to a request for multimedia information from a user via an Internet, receiving the requested multimedia information from the web server and displaying the multimedia information on a display as a moving image.

Claims

1. A system for providing multimedia service, comprising:

a mobile communication terminal for accessing an Internet in response to a request for multimedia information by a user and displaying the multimedia information downloaded from the Internet on a display; and

a mobile switching center for accessing, in response to the request for the multimedia information from the mobile communication terminal, a web server containing the multimedia information and being connected to the Internet and transmitting the multimedia information received from the web server to the mobile communication terminal; and

a Video-On-Demand (VOD) server connected to the mobile switching center for storing VOD contents provided from the web server in response to a request by the user and downloading the VOD contents to the mobile communication terminal,

wherein the web server contains various multimedia information and provides the multimedia information requested by the mobile communication terminal to the mobile communication terminal via the mobile switching center.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the web server is a video server which retrieves video data requested by the mobile communication terminal from a database containing various video contents, and provides the video data to the mobile communication terminal.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the web server is a traffic information server which stores traffic condition image data inputted through cameras established on a plurality of roads, and provides traffic condition image data of a road requested by the mobile communication terminal to the mobile communication terminal.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the web server is a security server which stores security condition image data inputted through cameras established in areas of a particular place, and provides security condition image data of an area requested by the mobile communication terminal to the mobile communication terminal.

5. The system according to claim 1, wherein the VOD server is included in the mobile switching center.

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