Patent ID: 9554001
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. An information processing apparatus for storing output data in a storage unit, in an output system in which an output device acquires and outputs the output data stored in the storage unit, the information processing apparatus comprising: a substitute output function validity determining unit configured to determine whether a substitute output function is to be valid for the output data, based on information read from the output data, by using a substitute output setting having set therein the information that can be read from the output data for which the substitute output function is to be valid; and a substitute output person specifying unit configured to specify a substitute output person, based on the information that can be read from the output data, and reflect information of the specified substitute output person in output-data-related-information relating to the output data that is stored together with the output data in the storage unit, when the substitute output function validity determining unit determines that the substitute output function should be valid for the output data.