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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2015
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Tomonari Takahashi, Osaka, JP;
PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
An information processing method including: acquiring power information that indicates a power amount supplied by each of a plurality of circuits; outputting a command that causes a change in power consumption for one of the electrical devices; and determining the connection relationship between the one electrical device and the circuit to which the one electrical device is connected, based on the power information acquired, in which, in the determining, when it is determined that the state of the power amounts supplied by the plurality of circuits is a steady state from the power information acquired in the acquiring, the connection relationship is determined by specifying that the circuit corresponding to the power information that includes the change in power consumption corresponding to the command output with respect to the one electrical device in the outputting of the command is the circuit to which the one electrical device is connected.