Patent ID: 8717601

Claim:
A client terminal communicating with a document management server and a print server, wherein the document management server stores document data and the print server obtains the document data and converts it into print data, the client terminal comprising: a web browser unit configured to interpret HTML (HyperText Markup Language) data to display information, wherein the web browser unit displays a list of documents stored in the document management server and transmits a conversion request to the print server for a document that is selected from among the documents in the list; and a print confirmation unit configured to confirm a progress of print conversion processing for the selected document to the print server in place of the web browser unit, and transmit a service request repeatedly until a response containing print data, which is converted based on the document, is replied from the print server, wherein the print confirmation unit is independent of the web browser, wherein the web browser unit is further configured to instruct the print confirmation unit to initiate processing of confirming a progress of the print conversion processing for the selected document to the print server after the transmission of the conversion request, and wherein the print confirmation unit transmits the service request repeatedly while the printing confirmation unit receives a response from the print server transmitted if the print conversion processing is not completed when a response setting time set at a reception of the previous service request in the print server has expired, and stops transmitting the service request in response to a response from the print server transmitted when the print conversion processing is completed, which contains the print data converted from the document.