Patent ID: 8688484

Claim:
A resource management method by a plurality of center apparatuses, said method comprising: by a processing unit in each of the center apparatuses, storing, in a memory of the center apparatus that corresponds to the processing unit, resource information on one or more resources which are rental objects in the center apparatus that corresponds to the processing unit; by a processing unit in each of the center apparatuses, receiving from each of other center apparatuses among the plurality of center apparatuses, the resource information of the other center apparatuses, and registering the resource information of the other center apparatuses to a management table stored in the memory of the center apparatus that corresponds to the processing unit; by a processing unit in a first center apparatus, detecting a computer hardware resource shortage in the first center apparatus, and pinpointing a bottleneck causing the shortage; by the processing unit in the first center apparatus, searching through the management table in the memory of the first center apparatus for one or more computer hardware resources which can reduce the bottleneck, and creating a center list of one or more of the center apparatuses which possess the searched one or more computer hardware resources; and requesting, by the processing unit in the first center apparatus, to a second center apparatus on the center list, to lend the searched one or more computer hardware resources to reduce the bottleneck; after the requesting step, both of the first center apparatus and the second center apparatus processing web requests which were to be processed by the first center apparatus and not the second center apparatus.