Patent ID: 11956401
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a management program to be executed by a computer of a management server administered by an administrator and connected to a control device that communicates with an image processing device used by a user, the management program causing the computer:
to acquire operation information on the image processing device from the control device connected through a network, the operation information being based on a printing result of the imaging processing device;
to store identification information on the image processing device and administrator information indicating the ac administrator of the image processing device and to link the identification information and the administrator information;
to encrypt a print job using an encryption key; and
to calculate an amount of money the user will be charged by the administrator indicated by the administrator information linked with the identification information of the image processing device concerning the acquired operation information based on the acquired operation information.