Patent ID: 9201621
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus that receives data from a service providing apparatus that provides a web service in response to a print instruction issued by a user who utilizes the web service, and that provides an image forming apparatus via a network with a job for printing that is generated based on the received data, the information processing apparatus comprising: management means for managing a first printer object that has a correspondence relationship with the image forming apparatus, and a second printer object that does not have a correspondence relationship with the image forming apparatus; display means for displaying a selection screen in order to select a printer selection item indicating the first printer object, and a printer selection item indicting the second printer object; and transmission means for holding the job without transmitting the job to a specific image forming apparatus when the second printer object is selected and a print instruction is issued, and transmitting, to the image forming apparatus, the job held by the second printer object in response to an access from the image forming apparatus to the first printer object, wherein, the display means further displays a printer selection item for selecting normal printing or temporarily stored printing when the selection item indicating the first printer object is selected, wherein, when the normal printing is selected, the transmission means transmits notification information to the image forming apparatus for providing notification that the job has been generated so as to cause the image forming apparatus that has the correspondence relationship with the first printer object to transmit an acquisition request for the job, and transmits the job to the image forming apparatus upon receipt, from the image forming apparatus, of the acquisition request for the job of a first mode, and wherein, when the temporarily stored printing is selected, the transmission means transmits the job to an image forming apparatus operated by the user upon receipt, from the image forming apparatus operated by the user, of an acquisition request for the job of a second mode without transmitting the notification information.