Patent ID: 7158257
Filing Date: 2007-01-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus which can communicate with plural image processing apparatuses, comprising: a determination unit adapted to determine a priority order of each of the plural image processing apparatuses; a first selection unit adapted to select, from among the plural image processing apparatuses, a first image processing apparatus of which the priority order determined by said determination unit is high, as the image processing apparatus for executing a first process; a second selection unit, in a case where the first image processing apparatus selected by said first selection unit cannot continue to execute the first process, adapted to select a second image processing apparatus of which the priority order is high next to that of the first image processing apparatus, as the image processing apparatus for substitutively executing the first process; and a change unit adapted to make the priority order of the second image processing apparatus higher than that of the first image processing apparatus according to the completion of the first process by said second image processing apparatus.