Patent ID: 9122544
Filing Date: 2015-09-01
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus including a hardware processor, comprising: a communication unit to communicate with a program providing apparatus and communicate with a resource providing apparatus via a network, respectively, the communication unit receiving a program that includes a usage request to use a resource which the program providing apparatus provides, wherein the usage request is described in a first format and does not include an identity of the resource providing apparatus which provides the resource requested by the usage request; a program execution unit to execute the program; a conversion unit to identify the resource providing apparatus which provides the resource based on the usage request and data representing at least association between the usage request and a device an identifier of the resource providing apparatus and convert the usage request described in the first format into a usage request described in a second format that can be interpreted by the resource providing apparatus identified, and wherein the communication unit transmits the usage request in the second format to the resource providing apparatus.