Method to deliver services over existing wireless lan infrastructure

摘要

A method to bypass the existing pay and use model to deliver services over existing wireless LAN infrastructure between mobile terminal and server is disclosed. Many of the existing WLAN infrastructures require users to subscribe to service provider to access their network. The inventive method uses internet protocol (IP) packet for delivering services/data between server and mobile terminal. Internet protocol (IP) layer processes the IP packets received from a mobile terminal and uses protocol subfield in the IP header of the received IP packet in identifying the services/data at the server end. The server sends the IP packet containing requested services/data to the mobile terminal. Since all the communication takes place at IP layer (not TCP or UDP) it doesn't require user id and password to go through.