Patent ID: 8688767

Claim:
A distributed processing system which transports one of at least two types of operation bodies from a first information processing apparatus to a second information processing apparatus, wherein the first information processing apparatus comprises: hardware, including a processor; a memory from which a processor executes one or more computer programs to implement: at least a pair of first transport portions which correspond to at least a pair of types of transportation methods in accordance with the two types of the operation bodies and which conducts transportation operations of the operation bodies; a transportation method selection information storing portion storing information used for selecting the transportation method; a transportation method selection portion which selects one of the transportation methods that is operable for the second information operation apparatus in reference to the transportation method selection information storing portion and selects one of the first transportation portions; and a control portion which receives a request from outside and requests the selected first transportation portion to transport the operation body, and wherein the second information processing apparatus comprises a second transportation portion which conducts a transportation of the operation body transported from the selected first transport portion by using at least one of the transportation methods, wherein the second information operation apparatus is plural, the transportation method selection information storing portion stores both predetermined information operation apparatus identification information for identifying the second information operation apparatuses and information for selecting transmission operations that are operable for the second information operation apparatuses while maintaining a corresponding relationship between them, and when both the information operation apparatus identification information of the second information operation apparatus of a transportation destination and the information for selecting the transportation method of the second information operation apparatus are input to the transportation method selection information storing portion, the transportation method selection portion detects the information for selecting the transportation method corresponding to the information operation apparatus identification information from the transportation method selection information storing portion and selects one of the first transportation portion which corresponds to the transportation method based on the detected information for selecting the transportation method.