Patent ID: 8693024

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: an execution period specifying unit configured to specify an execution period of each of a plurality of image processing operations executed by a plurality of image processing apparatuses within a given period of time in the past; a first calculation unit configured to calculate, using a first assumption that the plurality of age processing apparatuses have been replaced by a replacement image processing apparatus, an amount of power estimated to be consumed by the replacement image processing apparatus executing the plurality of image processing operations during, the given period of time, the calculation of the amount of power being based on a length of each execution period, a preset amount of power consumption of the replacement image processing apparatus during execution of an image processing operation, a preset processing speed of each of the plurality of image processing apparatuses, and a preset processing speed of the replacement image processing apparatus; and a second calculation unit configured to calculate, using the first assumption and based on the amount of power calculated by the first calculation unit, a total amount of power estimated to be consumed by the replacement image processing apparatus during the given period of time.