Patent ID: 7545785

Claim:
A mobile communication system comprising: a management device; and a plurality of access routers connected to the management device, wherein the management device comprises: a management unit configured to manage a management table storing a unique identifier of a mobile terminal, a care-of address and a routing address as being associated with one another, the care-of address includes a value unique to a connecting access router which is an access router to which the mobile terminal connects, and is included in the plurality of access routers, the routing address is assigned by the connecting access router; and a judgment unit configured to judge whether or not an acquired unique identifier is already stored in the management table, the acquired unique identifier is a unique identifier of the mobile terminal and is acquired via one access router included in the plurality of access routers, wherein the management unit management unit newly registers a care-of address including the value unique to the one access router and a routing address assigned by the one access router in the management table, when the acquired unique identifier is not stored in the management tables, and when the acquired unique identifier is stored in the management table, the judgment unit requests information from the plurality of access routers other than the one access router to make a determination of whether a routing address is assigned to the mobile terminal in one of the plurality of access routers other than the one access router or whether the acquired unique identifier exists as an identifier of another mobile terminal in one of the plurality of access routers other than the one access router, and inputs the determination to the management unit, and the management unit notifies the plurality of access routers of the determination.