Patent ID: 8810825

Claim:
A system for providing cloud print service to guests and to users having user credentials, said system comprising: a print service providing apparatus configured to receive a guest-submitted print job file from a guest terminal device via a network, register the received guest-submitted print job file in association with a release code, and send the release code through the network to the guest terminal device, and to receive and authenticate user credentials from a client terminal device and receive a credentialed print job from the client to final device via the network and store the credentialed print job in association with the received user credentials; and a print apparatus including a user interface including a guest user interface part configured for user entry of the release code, and a credentialed user interface part configured for user entry of the user credentials, wherein in a case that the release code is entered through the guest user interface part of the user interface of the print apparatus, the print apparatus requests the print service providing apparatus for the guest-submitted print job file associated with the release code, when the print apparatus receives the guest-submitted print job file from the print service providing apparatus, the print apparatus processes the guest-submitted print job file to generate a print output based on the processed guest-submitted print job file, and in a case that the user credentials are entered through the credentialed user interface part of the user interface of the print apparatus, the print apparatus communicates the entered user credentials to the print service providing apparatus for authentication, and receives submitted job information indicating submitted jobs associated with the authenticated user credentials.