Patent ID: 8537792

Claim:
A terminal control apparatus comprising: a use state checking means for checking a use state of a single channel when prohibiting a first radio communication terminal from transmitting data, where said first radio communication terminal is configured to carry out radio communications using the single channel; a first radio data transmitting means for generating radio data including information about a data transmission prohibition time interval during which the data transmission is prohibited, where said information is set in a header region which a second radio communication terminal and said first radio communication terminal both recognize, where said second radio communication terminal is configured to carry out radio communications using two or more channels, and where said two or more channels include said single channel, and for, when said use state checking means finds the single channel being unused, transmitting the generated radio data to said first radio communication terminal through the single channel by using a frame which said first radio communication terminal can recognize; and a second radio data transmitting means for, when prohibiting said second radio communication terminal from transmitting data, generating radio data including information about a data transmission prohibition time interval during which the data transmission is prohibited, and for transmitting the generated radio data to said second radio communication terminal by using said two or more channels.