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Information processing apparatus and method, information processing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium

  • US 10,091,129 B2
  • Filed: 05/28/2014
  • Issued: 10/02/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

  • at least one hardware processor configured to implement;

    a communication section configured to communicate with a processing providing apparatus which utilizes a different amount of resource in accordance with a load of processing to be performed on data;

    a calculator configured to calculate an amount of resource to be utilized for performing processing on the data by the processing providing apparatus, at a plurality of time points corresponding to different steps of processing performed by the information processing apparatus before sending the data and a request for processing the data to the processing providing apparatus; and

    a sender configured to send, at a plurality of time points corresponding to the different steps, a request to get or release the resource based on the amount of resource calculated by the calculator to the processing providing apparatus via the communication section.

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