Patent ID: 7769307

Claim:
An information processing apparatus configured to monitor a status of consumables of an image forming apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store the status of the consumables of the image forming apparatus; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a consumption rate of the consumables of the image forming apparatus; a determination unit configured to determine a subsequent status of the consumables based on the status of the consumables stored in the storage unit and the consumption rate acquired by the acquisition unit, wherein the status of the consumables includes a first status, a second status, and a third status, wherein the second status has a remaining amount of the consumables less than the first status and the third status has a remaining amount of consumables less than the second status; a notification unit configured to notify that the remaining amount of the consumables is low when the subsequent status of the consumables is determined to be the third status by the determination unit; and a replacement notification unit configured to notify that the consumables have been replaced when the subsequent status of the consumables is determined to be the first status by the determination unit, wherein when the status of the consumables stored in the storage unit is the third status, the determination unit determines that the subsequent status of the consumables is the first status if the consumption rate acquired by the acquisition unit is greater than or equal to a second threshold, and determines that the subsequent status of the consumables is not the second status but the third status if a consumption rate acquired by the acquisition unit is greater than or equal to the first threshold but less than the second threshold.