Patent ID: 6785012
Filing Date: 2004-08-31
Classification: G06F,G06K,Y02D

Abstract:
An information processing apparatus that serves as a host unit for communicating with a plurality of printing apparatuses via a network, each of the plurality of printing apparatuses being in a print-ready state or a second power state in which power consumption is less than that of the print-ready state, said information processing apparatus comprising:a request unit adapted to request status information of each of the plurality of printing apparatuses; a reception unit adapted to receive the status information of each of the plurality of printing apparatuses requested by said request unit; an identifying unit for identifying each of the plurality of printing apparatuses as being either in the print-ready state or the second power state, based on the status information received by said reception unit; and a user interface unit adapted to control a display of a plurality of printer states, wherein the display indicates the state of each of the plurality of printing apparatuses on a same window, so as to indicate each printing apparatus as being in the print-ready state or in the second power state, based on a respective identification result of said identifying unit.