Patent ID: 8531702

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: first reception means adapted to receive a cancel request of a job from a user; first determination means adapted to determine whether or not the job as a target for the cancel request received by the reception means is a virtual job processed by cooperating functions of a plurality of image processing apparatuses; acquisition means adapted to acquire, in a case where the job is determined to be a virtual job by the first determination means, information regarding the plurality of image processing apparatuses which cooperates to execute the virtual job and an order in which a cancel instruction for the virtual job is to be transmitted to the plurality of image processing apparatuses; and first transmission means adapted to transmit the cancel instruction for the virtual job to any of the plurality of the image processing apparatuses based on the order acquired by the acquisition means, wherein a priority order for issuing the cancel instruction is set for each processing to be performed by each cooperating image processing apparatus when executing the virtual job, and said acquired order in which the cancel instruction for the virtual job is to be transmitted to the plurality of image processing apparatuses is decided based on the set priority order.