Communication control device for selecting a path under different loads—high, middle, or low loads—based on whether a prohibition period has passed

An information processing apparatus comprising:

• a plurality of interface units that are provided for respective multiple paths and perform data transmission to a communication partner device connected via the multiple paths;
• and
• a communication control unit that assigns any of the interface units data transmission to the communication partner device, wherein each of the interface units sets a prohibition period in which new data transmission is prohibited for a predetermined period of time since the last data transmission has been completed,
• when all interface units are either in process of data transmission or in the prohibition period but there is an interface unit which is in the prohibition period in a state where all interface units have high-loads, loads on the interface units being classified under a low-load, a medium-load and the high-load, the communication control unit assigns the new data transmission to the interface unit which is in the prohibition period.