Patent ID: 8499130

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: a processor that performs a process; and a plurality of history information accumulation units each accumulating history information concerning the process performed by the processor, the processor executing: storing history information acquired by the processor into a storage of a first unit of the plurality of information accumulation units, transmitting the history information stored in the storage of the first unit to a second unit of the plurality of history information accumulation units in response to a request for the history information generated by the second unit at a time of a startup operation of the second unit, transmitting, from the first unit to the second unit, updated history information when new history information is acquired, storing the history information transmitted from the first unit into a first storage of the second unit, the history information being transmitted from the first unit in response to one of a startup operation and in response to each acquisition request, and storing the updated history information in the second unit.