Patent ID: 8345285

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: an operation display section for displaying a screen to set processing conditions relating to a job and for receiving an operation to set the processing conditions relating to the job; a generation section for generating a job under the processing conditions set by the operation with the operation display section; a storage section for storing job information comprising the processing conditions relating to the job generated by the generation section; a measuring section for measuring an elapsed time from a time when the job is generated by the generation section; and a control section configured to perform at least the following operations: displaying a plurality of previously generated jobs in a predetermined order using the job information on the operation display section, determining an order of the importance based on a degree of complexity of operation when the processing conditions are set for each job, calculating a display priority of each job based on the order of the importance and the elapsed time of each respective job, wherein the display priority is calculated so as to decrease according to an elapsed time, wherein the amount of decrease per unit time of the display priority of the job in the lower order of importance is larger than the amount of decrease per unit time of the display priority of the job in the higher order of importance, and replacing a display order of the plurality of the jobs so that the job having a higher display priority is displayed in a higher display order.