Patent ID: 8130392
Filing Date: 2012-03-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A document management server, comprising: a management unit configured to manage device management information for each printer and document management information for each document file, wherein the device management information associates a domain to which a printer belongs with at least one domain, assigned to the printer, to which at least one document file belongs, and the document management information associates a domain to which a document file belongs with at least one domain, assigned to the document file, to which at least one printer belongs; a reception unit configured to receive a print instruction for a selected document file selected by a user from a selected printer that has received a print request from a user; a print permission determination unit configured to; i) determine whether or not a domain to which the selected printer belongs and a domain to which the selected document file belongs are the same by referring to the document management information and the device management information managed by said management unit, in response to the print instruction received by said reception unit, ii) decide to permit printing if the domains are determined to be the same, iii) decide to permit printing, if the domains are determined not to be the same, when the domain to which the selected document file belongs is included in domains associated with the domain to which the selected printer belongs and the domain to which the selected printer belongs is included in domains associated with the domain to which the selected document file belongs, and iv) decide to inhibit printing otherwise; a transmission unit configured to transmit the selected document file to the selected printer if printing is permitted, and transmit a notification of an authentication failure to the selected printer if printing is inhibited.