Patent ID: 8699045
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a reception unit configured to receive user information from a printing apparatus before a print instruction for printing document data is received; a storage unit configured to store the user information in an associated manner with the printing apparatus; a determination unit configured to determine whether user information which is identified from the print instruction is stored by the storage unit; and a transmission unit configured to transmit, when the determination unit determines that the user information which is identified from the print instruction is stored by the storage unit, a print job to be generated based on the print instruction to the printing apparatus being associated with the user information identified from the print instruction, wherein when a period of time elapsed from time of a notification of the user information from the printing apparatus to time of reception of the print instruction from a client apparatus is longer than a first predetermined period of time, if the determination unit determines that the user information identified from the print instruction is stored by the storage unit, the storage unit stores drawing data based on the print instruction.