Patent ID: 7996011

Claim:
A communication control apparatus for controlling data communication to a mobile communication terminal connectable to a plurality of types of communication networks, comprising: a detecting unit that detects a connection status of the mobile communication terminal in each communication network; an assigning unit that assigns data addressed to the mobile communication terminal, to each communication network to which the mobile communication terminal is connected, based on a volume of the data addressed to the mobile communication terminal and the connection status detected by the detecting unit; a transmitting unit that transmits the data assigned to each communication network by the assigning unit, to said each communication network; and a handover processing unit that performs a handover process in the plurality of types of communication networks, based on the connection status detected by the detecting unit, wherein when the detecting unit detects that the mobile communication terminal is simultaneously connected to a plurality of communication networks, the assigning unit divides data addressed to the mobile communication terminal into separate portions and assigns each of the separate portions to a separate one of the connected communication networks based on the volume of data and the communication rates of the connected communication networks.