Patent ID: 7716431

Claim:
An information processing method, comprising: obtaining first data representing an execution state of an application program, among a plurality of application programs, used by users from nodes included in a computer system; first calculating second data representing a used capability value of said application program as a relative value by using said first data and third data representing capability values of said nodes, wherein said capability values of said nodes are relative values and the relative values relate the values of one node to another node; obtaining, from said nodes, fourth data representing an application program usage frequency that is data of an access time, for each of said users; second calculating fifth data representing application program usage ratios of said users by using said fourth data; and third calculating, for each of said users, sixth data representing a ratio of said used capability value for a total capability value of said computer system, for said application program, by using said second data and said fifth data, wherein said second calculating comprises: calculating a total access time of each of said users by using said fourth data; and calculating, as said fifth data, a ratio of said total access time of each of said users by dividing said total access time of each of said users by a sum of said total access times of all of said users who used said application program, and wherein said third calculating comprises: dividing a product of said second data and said fifth data of a specific user by a sum of said used capability values of all of said application programs.