Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information ...

(54) INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING

(76) Inventors: Shinichi Tanaka, Kanagawa (JP);

Yukiyoshi Hirose, Kanagawa (JP)

Correspondence Address:
BELL, BOYD & LLOYD, LLC
P. O. BOX 1135

CHICAGO, IL 60690-1135 (US)

(21) Appl. No.: 10/549,427

(22) PCT Filed: Feb. 2, 2005
(86) PCT No.: PCT/JP05/01866

(30) Foreign Application Priority Data

Feb. 3, 2004 (JP) 2004-026454

Publication Classification

(51) Int. CI.

G06F 15/173 (2006.01)

(52) U.S. CI 709/224

(57) ABSTRACT

An information processing apparatus that enables to perform a distributed processing in response to a user's operation reliably and effectively among a plurality of information processing apparatuses interconnected through a network. A main processor (21) writes an information data about an operating status of its own apparatus as an apparatus data in a main memory (26) connected to the information processing controller, and transmits the apparatus data to another apparatus in response to a request from the another apparatus. Accordingly, an information processing apparatus checks the operating status of its own and other information processing apparatuses, selects an information processing apparatus for executing a computer program in response to the user's operation, and causes that apparatus to execute the computer program.