SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MOBILE TELEPHONE AS AUDIO GATEWAY

摘要

Disclosed is a system and method for using a mobile telephone (10) as an audio gateway. In one embodiment, a mobile telephone (12) requests: access to a wireless network (100), wherein the wireless network (100) includes at least one remote server (102) that contains multimedia content. The mobile telephone (12) assigns a subnet internet protocol (IP) address to a rendering device (14). After authenticating the user, the user selects at least one service and/or device associated with the wireless network (100). The streaming audio is then routed to the rendering device (14) based on the assigned subnet IP address.