An information processing apparatus includes: an image memory that stores therein an image that is to be displayed on a terminal device; a drawing unit that draws a processing result from software into the image memory; a detecting unit that detects an update area containing an update between frames in the image; a splitting unit that splits, the image in the update area; a creating unit that creates, wait insertion data by inserting a wait between each of the pieces of the split data; a changing unit that changes the wait; an acquiring unit that acquires, the available bandwidth and a display update speed that indicates display intervals of the wait insertion data for each wait; and a selecting unit that selects, when a wait in which the available bandwidth is increased and the display update speed is improved, the wait.