Patent ID: 9692915
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A server apparatus, comprising: a Central Processing Unit (CPU); and a memory; wherein the CPU communicates with a plurality of apparatuses including an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus through a network; the CPU receives a log-in request of a user and apparatus information related to an apparatus which has transmitted the log-in request through the CPU, to authenticate log-in of the user as a logged-in user; the memory stores the logged-in user whose log-in has been authenticated by the CPU, in combination with the apparatus information of the apparatus to which the logged-in user is currently logged-in to; the CPU determines whether or not the apparatus information of each of the information processing apparatus to which the logged-in user is currently logged-in to and the image forming apparatus is stored in combination with the same logged-in user in the memory; and the CPU transmits to the image forming apparatus, in response to a positive determination by the CPU and to a print request received from the information processing apparatus, a print job based on the received print request.