Patent ID: 8780377

Claim:
A print control device for managing a print job based on an instruction from a client terminal, the print control device comprising: an acceptance unit configured to accept a print instruction to a printer from the client terminal and authentication information comprising user information; a confirmation unit configured to confirm the validity of the authentication information to an authentication unit configured to issue and manage the authentication information; a registration unit configured to register the print job as an execution job together with the authentication information if the authentication information is confirmed to be valid; an update unit configured to access the authentication unit during registration of the execution job and update the expiration date/time of the registered authentication information; and a reception unit configured to receive regular communication from the printer at regular intervals, wherein, when the regular communication has not been received even after the elapse of a predetermined period of time from the reception of the regular communication by the reception unit, the registration unit deletes the registered execution job.