Patent ID: 8643878
Filing Date: 2014-02-04
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a deciding unit that decides whether or not in-monitoring assertion information is recorded by another image forming apparatus connected through a communicating unit, the in-monitoring assertion information representing that an information storing unit for storing information is being monitored; a recording unit that generates new in-monitoring assertion information and records the new in-monitoring assertion information in the information storing unit, in response to either: the deciding unit deciding that the in-monitoring assertion information is not recorded in the information storing unit by the another image forming apparatus; or the deciding unit deciding that the in-monitoring assertion information is recorded in the information storing unit by the another image forming apparatus and the in-monitoring assertion information includes an expiration date that is elapsed; an acquiring unit that acquires information to be an image forming target, the information to be the image forming target being held by the information storing unit; and an executing unit that executes an image formation processing based on the information to be the image forming target which is acquired by the acquiring unit, wherein in response to the deciding unit deciding that the in-monitoring assertion information is recorded in the information storing it by the another image forming apparatus and the in-monitoring assertion information includes an expiration date that is not elapsed, the recording unit does not generate the new in-monitoring assertion information and the executing unit does not execute the image formation processing.