Patent ID: 7154616

Claim:
A print apparatus for holding an application program provided from an application service provider apparatus, comprising: downloading means for downloading the application program to a user terminal apparatus; receiving means for receiving, from said user terminal apparatus, a file produced when said user terminal apparatus executes the application program, and a print request of the produced file; discriminating means for discriminating a type of the application program used to produce the file; print processing means for executing print processing of the received file; recording means for recording, in a log, a print amount caused by the print processing, in correspondence with the type of the application program; calculating means for calculating a charge on the basis of a cost for use of the log and a cost for use of the application program; and notifying means for notifying an accounting management server of the calculated charge, wherein said accounting management server effects processing for sending money to said application service provider apparatus, on the basis of the calculated charge.