Patent ID: 8701171
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store user identification information for identifying the user who is logging on a printing apparatus; a processor configured to determine whether a user who is logging on the printing apparatus exists based on the user identification information stored in the storage unit; an acquisition unit configured to, in a case where the processor determines that a user who is logging on the printing apparatus exists based on the user identification information stored in the storage unit, when communication between the information processing apparatus and the printing apparatus is recovered from a state in which the communication is unavailable, acquire, from the printing apparatus, print information indicating an amount of printing which was performed by an instruction of the user identified by the user identification information stored in the storage unit, the print information having not been acquired during the state in which the communication is unavailable; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit, to a server, the print information indicating an amount of printing which was performed by an instruction of the user acquired by the acquisition unit and the user identification information stored in the storage unit in order to update an amount of sheets which the user identified by the user identification information transmitted by the transmitting unit prints at the printing apparatus.