Apparatus and method for providing data service using heterogeneous network

Abstract

A method for determining a network for receiving, by a user terminal, data for a content service, according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, comprises the steps of: receiving the data from a first network; receiving transmission characteristic information of the data for receiving the data from the first network; obtaining network state information of a second network using information included in a packet header of the data; and determining whether to switch the network for receiving the data from the first network to the second network, on the basis of the transmission characteristic information and the second network information.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.