Patent ID: 8074233

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: a central processing unit (CPU); a device controller configured to control a peripheral device; a device driver configured to cause the device controller to operate the peripheral device in accordance with a program executed by the CPU; a monitoring module configured to periodically transmit a message to the device driver and to initialize the device driver when a response to the message is not received; and a setting module configured to: manage a first list indicating a program executed by the CPU immediately after an operating system is booted, and at least one second list indicating a program executed by the CPU when the device driver is initialized by the monitoring module; select a program that is on the at least one second list and is not on the first list, as a program considered to cause initialization of the device driver; and change an interval of transmission of the message from a first value defined as an initial setting value to a second value larger than the first value when execution of the selected program is started by the CPU.