Patent ID: 9510279
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. An intelligent multiple access communication control method for an intelligent multiple access communication control apparatus that controls connections between a terminal that supports a plurality of Radio Access Technologies (RATs) and a plurality of wireless networks each of which corresponds to one of the plurality of RATs, the method comprising: commanding, for each RAT, a medium access control (MAC) layer of the terminal to perform an access procedure for accessing one of the wireless networks corresponding to said each RAT; connecting the terminal and the wireless networks corresponding to the plurality of RATs for providing a plurality of services via the RATs, each service including a plurality of sessions; collecting RAT information including information about available resources and radio state of the RAT; checking Quality of Service (QoS) of at least one connection target service; determining a priority of the service based on a result of the checking the QoS of each session included in each of the services, and selecting one of the plurality of services as a preferential connection target service; determining one of the RATs as a connection RAT for performing the preferential connection target service based on the QoS and the RAT information; and initiating the preferential connection target service via the connection RAT.