Patent ID: 8959208
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An equipment set generation support apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a plurality of equipments connected to a network, state change event information notifying a new state after a state change of each equipment and an occurrence time and date of the state change; an extraction unit configured to extract a detection condition required for detecting a set of equipments and a set of state values in the set of equipments from notification information transmitted by another equipment different from the equipments, the detection condition including at least time information indicating a period of using an equipment, the notification information indicating a start time and an end time of a detection period; a selection unit configured to select, based on the detection condition, state change event information whose occurrence time and date of another state change falling within a period of using another equipment from the state change event information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a first detection unit configured to detect, from the plurality of equipments, a set of equipments whose states change in the detection period and a set of state values after the state change of each equipment by comparing a start state at the start time of the detection period with an end state at the end time of the detection period based on the state change event information selected by the selection unit.