Patent ID: 7409431

Claim:
A server apparatus which manages image data and receives a print request from one of a plurality of communication terminals via a network, comprising: generating means for generating a print order based on the print request received from the one of the plurality of communication terminals; measuring means for measuring a performance time of the generating of the print order; checking means for checking whether the generating of the print order is complete; and sending control means for controlling to send Web page information related to the print order to the one of the plurality of communication terminals, if the checking means determines that the generating of the print order is complete before the performance time measured by the measuring means exceeds a predetermined time period, and to send an e-mail describing a URL for accessing the Web page information to the one of the plurality of communication terminals, the performance time measured by the measuring means exceeds the predetermined time period before the checking means determines that the generating of the print order is complete.