Patent ID: 8614805
Filing Date: 2013-12-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: an accepting unit that accepts an identifier for identifying a user of a device and a storage site information item representing a storage site for storing a usage amount information item representing a usage amount concerning use of the device by the user; a memory that stores one or more identifiers and a plurality of storage site information items in association with each other; a controller that performs, if the identifier accepted by the accepting unit matches one of the identifiers stored in the memory and if the storage site information item accepted by the accepting unit matches one of the storage site information items stored in the memory, control so that the usage amount information item representing the usage amount concerning use of the device is stored in the storage site represented by the storage site information item; and a switch unit that switches, if a different storage site information item that is different from the storage site information item currently accepted by the accepting unit among the storage site information items stored in the memory is accepted by the accepting unit when the storage site represented by the storage site information item accepted by the accepting unit is set, in accordance with control performed by the controller, as a target in which the usage amount information item is to be stored, the storage site set as the target to the storage site represented by the different storage site information item.