Patent ID: 8739168

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: a processor and a memory; a request receiving unit configured to receive a processing request for execution; a priority management unit configured to set a priority of said received request; a processing execution unit configured to execute processing of said request received by said request receiving unit, based on said priority thereof set by said priority management unit; a responding unit configured to return a response of a result of said processing executed by said processing execution unit to a requesting source of said processing request; a judgment unit configured to judge whether or not said processing request received by said request receiving unit is a specific request; a counting unit configured to count a number of times that a time period elapsed after returning said response from said responding unit to said requesting source until receipt of a next processing request by said request receiving unit is within a predetermined time period, when it is judged by said judgment unit that said processing request is a specific request; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to change said priority set by said priority management unit to a low priority, based on said number of times counted by said counting unit.