Patent ID: 8817300

Claim:
A print server apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive, from a client device, a uniform resource locator (URL) displayed on an edit screen, wherein the URL is other than a URL of a document and wherein the edit screen is provided to the client device by a web application on a web application server and is displayed on a web browser of the client device to permit a user of the client device to execute edit processing of the document through the displayed edit screen; an extraction unit configured to extract, from the received URL, identification information that is configured to be used to identify location of document data corresponding to the document; an acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the web application server that provided the edit screen to the client device, the document data whose location in the web application server is identified using the extracted identification information; and an instruction unit configured to instruct, in a case of printing the acquired document data a printing apparatus to print the acquired document data; and a determination unit configured to determine a storage method of the document data by determining whether the received URL is consistent with a regular expression of a preregistered URL, wherein, when the received URL is not consistent with a regular expression of preregistered URLs, the receiving unit transmits, to the web browser of the client device, a response indicating that printing is impossible.