Patent ID: 7701967

Claim:
A communication control terminal apparatus comprising: a codec unit that performs coding operations; a plurality of communication units, each communication unit performing a communication procedure that corresponds to a communication type; a management unit for managing management information including a plurality of communication types of a plurality of communication procedures performed by the communication units; a storage unit for storing a plurality of timer values indicating a plurality of periods of time during which said codec unit can perform coding operations for each type of communication procedure, each timer value corresponding to one of the communication types; and a rotation unit for rotating the coding operations performed by said codec unit among two or more the communication procedures, based on the management information managed by said management unit, and for varying an operation time of said codec unit, based on a communication type and a corresponding timer value stored in said storage unit, wherein, if a designated amount of code is determined to have been processed by said codec unit for one of the two or more communication procedures, said rotation unit terminates rotating the coding operations performed by said codec unit for the one of the two or more communication procedures.