Patent ID: 8477348
Filing Date: 2013-07-02
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus to which a printer and a client device are connected via a network, the information processing apparatus comprising: a component configured to receive print button information corresponding to a button for printing a document from said client device, wherein the print button information includes information of the document, a print setting of the document, a printing user of the document and a display form specified by a user of the client device, the display form indicating a display form change processing to be executed for changing the display form of the button of the document in a case that the document has been printed; a component configured to preserve the received print button information and a flag which is set for each user in order to show whether or not the document has been printed for each user; a component configured to transmit information of the button to be displayed in a user interface of the printer based on the preserved print button information and the preserved flag, wherein the button to be displayed in the user interface of the printer is the button for printing the document which has not been printed based on the button specified by a user of the printer; and a component configured to, when the user of the printer instructed said printer to print the document by specifying the button corresponding the document and printing according to the instruction resulted in success in the printer, update said flag so as to show that the document has been printed based on the button specified by the user of the printer, and transmit information of the button which has been changed based on the display form of the button included in the print button information.