Patent ID: 7685285

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: use state acquisition module for acquiring a plurality of use states of an information processing apparatus and for quantifying said acquired use states into corresponding index values, wherein one of said use states is a system use rate, an input device use frequency or an operation state, wherein one of said index values is quantified by operation probability×(1−busy rate) wherein said operation probability is determined based on said operation state, and said busy rate is determined based on said system use rate and said input device use frequency; index value recording module for recording said index values under corresponding hours within each day of a week; time band selection module for selecting a time band having one or more of said index values at or above a predetermined reference index value, as a scheduled time band during which a management program within said information processing apparatus is scheduled to be executed; and program execution instruction module for causing said management program to be executed on said information processing apparatus at said scheduled time band selected by said time band selection module.