Patent ID: 7688799

Claim:
A mobile terminal comprising: communication means for performing data communication per a fixed time length to a base station end, wherein communication means has at least two channels including a first channel that communicates for said fixed time length and a second channel that communicates for fractional parts of said fixed time length; mode setting information obtaining means for obtaining predetermined mode setting information notified from said base station end, wherein the predetermined mode is a mode that the mobile terminal is monitoring of neighboring base stations other than a current communication base station end; free time generation processing means for generating a free time interval at which no data communication is performed in said fixed time length and performing a predetermined processing in the free time interval, by compressing intervals at which data communication is performed in said fixed time length, when said predetermined mode setting information obtained by said mode setting information obtaining means from the base station end; judging means for judging whether communication quality of the second channel between the mobile terminal and the base station end by said communication means is not less than a preset predetermined communication quality of the second channel between the mobile terminal and the base station end; and control means, when said judging means judges that the communication quality of the second channel between the mobile terminal and the base station end is under the predetermined communication quality of the second channel between the mobile terminal and the base station end, for controlling said free time generation processing means to generate the free time interval and for controlling said communication means to temporarily stop data communication during the free time interval, and when said judging means judges that the communication quality of the second channel between the mobile terminal and the base station end is not less than the predetermined communication quality of the second channel between the mobile terminal and the base station end, for controlling said free time generation processing means not to generate the free time interval and also for controlling said communication means to continue performing data communication, wherein the free time intervals are not generated when communication quality is not less than the preset predetermined communication quality of the second channel between the mobile terminal and the base station end.