Patent ID: 8533725

Claim:
An information processing system comprising: plural information processing apparatuses that have respective hardware resources including hardware resources to be licensed, each information processing apparatus performing information processing using the licensed hardware resources in which use rights are allocated; and a management apparatus that is connected to the plural information processing apparatuses and manages the hardware resources of the plural information processing apparatuses, the management apparatus including— a use right information holding unit that holds use right information corresponding to the use rights of the hardware resources, and a use right allocation unit that checks load conditions of the plural information processing apparatuses, and allocates the use rights to the hardware resources on a hardware resource basis in accordance with the held use right information, wherein when the loads of any of the plural information processing apparatuses become high, the use rights allocated to hardware resources of the other information processing apparatus is forcibly suspended, and the suspended use rights allocated to the hardware resources of the other information processing apparatus is allocated to the information processing apparatuses having the high loads.