Patent ID: 9471459
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program that causes a computer to perform a process comprising: obtaining first information indicating an execution status of a plurality of tasks related to each other; estimating an estimated time by which an unexecuted task included in the plurality of tasks is completed based on second information indicating past execution records of the plurality of tasks, the unexecuted task being not yet executed when the first information is obtained; and obtaining an execution status of the unexecuted task at the estimated time; wherein the plurality of tasks are three or more events that are executed in a sequence of an operation; and wherein the process further includes evaluating whether first time intervals between events belonging to the operation have a stationarity property or not based on the second information, obtaining second time intervals between execution times of two or more executed events based on the first information when the first time intervals have the stationarity property, and estimating the estimated time based on the second time intervals and means of ratios of the first time intervals.