Patent ID: 7321440
Filing Date: 2008-01-22
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A server apparatus connected to a printer and to a plurality of client terminals, comprising: a print job obtainer configured to obtain, from the printer, information that identifies one of the plurality of client terminals and a print job, the one of the plurality of client terminals requesting the printer to print the print job; a request obtainer configured to obtain a request for editing the print job stored in the printer from the one of the plurality of client terminals, the request including predetermined information that identifies the one of the plurality of client terminals; and a controller configured to determine whether the information obtained by the print job obtainer includes the predetermined information that identifies the one of the plurality of client terminals obtained by the request obtainer, the controller being further configured to transmit, to the one of the plurality of client terminals, predetermined list data including the print job which the one of the plurality of client terminals can access, when it is determined that the information obtained by the print job obtainer includes the predetermined information identifying the one of the plurality of client terminals obtained by the request obtainer, so that the one of the plurality of client terminals can instruct the server apparatus to edit the print job using the predetermined list data without inputting a password at the one of the plurality of client terminals, and the instructed server apparatus instructs the printer to edit the print job specified by the one of the plurality of client terminals.