Patent ID: 8482768

Claim:
A server apparatus that communicates with a printing apparatus, the server apparatus comprising: a first reception unit, constructed to receive a request for printing from a client apparatus; a search unit, constructed to search the printing apparatus for a memory box provided for the client apparatus in response to reception of the request received by said first reception unit; a command transmission unit, constructed to transmit, if said search unit does not find the memory box, a command of a process for forming a memory box to the printing apparatus, the command being provided to make the printing apparatus manage a job corresponding to the request by using the memory box of the printing apparatus, wherein the command is transmitted to the printing apparatus before the job is transmitted, and wherein, if said search unit finds the memory box, said command transmission unit does not transmit the command to the printing apparatus; a job transmission unit, constructed to transmit the job corresponding to the request to the printing apparatus; a second reception unit, constructed to receive identification information of the memory box which stores the job in response to the command transmitted by said command transmission unit, the identification information being used to refer to the job from the printing apparatus; and an information transmission unit, constructed to transmit, to the client apparatus, both the received identification information and authentication information which is set by the server apparatus and necessary in the case of reference to the job, wherein the memory box is a memory area in which a plurality of jobs can be managed, and the job managed by using the memory box is referred to and printed in response to an instruction different from the request, and wherein the authentication information is set to the memory box of the printing apparatus.