Patent ID: 8760688

Claim:
An image processing system comprising: a first image processing apparatus; and a second image processing apparatus connected to the first image processing apparatus, wherein the first image processing apparatus includes, a reader configured to read an image of a document as image data; a storage configured to store job information including the image data, an address to which the image data are to be transmitted and a transmission condition of the image data; a request unit configured to transmit a job request as a job to the second image processing apparatus together with identifier information for specifying the job information and control information for controlling job execution scheduling based on which the job corresponding to the job information is executed such that the request unit requests the second image processing apparatus to execute the job corresponding to the job information based on the job execution scheduling; an introducing unit configured to introduce the job information to the second image processing apparatus; and a detector configured to detect whether a number of the jobs reaches an upper limit of a number of jobs received by the second image processing apparatus, and wherein the second image processing apparatus includes, a receiver configured to receive the job request transmitted from the first image processing apparatus as the job; a job executing unit configured to execute the job, corresponding to the job information, requested by the first image processing apparatus; a determining unit configured to determine whether to acquire the job information based on the job execution scheduling; and an acquiring unit configured to acquire the job information from the first image processing apparatus based on a determined result supplied by the determining unit, and wherein the second image processing apparatus manages the number of the jobs received from the first image processing apparatus, when the detector has detected that the number of the jobs received by the second image processing apparatus has reached the upper limit thereof, the storage stores the job information corresponding to the job, and the introducing unit introduces to the second image processing apparatus the job information corresponding to the address to which the image data are to be transmitted from the second image processing apparatus, when the number of the jobs received by the second image processing apparatus has not reached the upper limit thereof, the second image processing apparatus causes the acquiring unit to acquire corresponding sets of the job information from the first image processing apparatus in an order of a number of addresses contained the job information from a largest number to a smallest number.