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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2014
Satoshi Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Kunihiro Akiyoshi, Fukuoka, JP;
Satoshi Takahashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Kunihiro Akiyoshi, Fukuoka, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information processing apparatus includes a simulator configured to simulate a process to be executed by an apparatus based on an operation procedure defined in first definition information, and one or more status changers each configured to detect arrival of a time specified in second definition information by monitoring an event generated based on the simulated process, and to change a status of the simulator to a status specified in the second definition information based on the detected time. In the information processing apparatus, the simulator simulates a process to be executed by the apparatus in accordance with a request from a program to cause the apparatus to execute the process in the status changed by the status changer.